diff --git a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile
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--- a/railties/guides/source/testing.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/testing.textile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ When you do end up destroying your testing database (and it will happen, trust m
 
 h4. Rails Sets up for Testing from the Word Go
 
-Rails creates a +test+ folder for you as soon as you create a Rails project using +rails new _application_name_+. If you list the contents of this folder then you shall see:
+Rails creates a +test+ folder for you as soon as you create a Rails project using +rails new+ _application_name_. If you list the contents of this folder then you shall see:
 
 <shell>
 $ ls -F test/