Using ERb with $SAFE=4

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I'm trying to use ERb to evaluate a template written by end users in a Rails application I'm writing. Here's my code:

require 'erb'
template = "<%= 'Testing 1 2 3...' %>".taint #because it will be user input in the final app
e = ERB.new(template, 4)
m = e.run
puts m

Here's what I get:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/erb.rb:739:in `eval': Insecure: can't modify trusted binding (SecurityError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/erb.rb:741:in `value'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/erb.rb:741:in `result'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/erb.rb:724:in `run'
         from tester.rb:4

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Andy Morrow