How to disable an email link?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I would like to disable an email address link in a HTML email.

For example, if in an email I send some raw HTML like

Answer 1

Reading all answers, I tried this in a Joomla article and it worked:

This is the email address: youremail@domain.com

Result:

This is the email address: youremail@domain.com

Worked on Chrome and Firefox.