diff --git a/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb b/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb
index 2219fcea66..14d671c8f3 100644
--- a/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb
+++ b/railties/guides/rails_guides/generator.rb
@@ -227,13 +227,13 @@ module RailsGuides
         end
 
         code_blocks.push(<<HTML)
-&lt;notextile&gt;
+<notextile>
 <div class="code_container">
 <pre class="brush: #{brush}; gutter: false; toolbar: false">
 #{ERB::Util.h($2).strip}
 </pre>
 </div>
-&lt;/notextile&gt;
+</notextile>
 HTML
         "\ndirty_workaround_for_notextile_#{code_blocks.size - 1}\n"
       end
@@ -280,4 +280,3 @@ HTML
     end
   end
 end
-
diff --git a/railties/guides/rails_guides/textile_extensions.rb b/railties/guides/rails_guides/textile_extensions.rb
index dd51e0d66b..352c5e91dd 100644
--- a/railties/guides/rails_guides/textile_extensions.rb
+++ b/railties/guides/rails_guides/textile_extensions.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ module RailsGuides
 
     def plusplus(body)
       body.gsub!(/\+(.*?)\+/) do |m|
-        "&lt;notextile&gt;<tt>#{$1}</tt>&lt;/notextile&gt;"
+        "<notextile><tt>#{$1}</tt></notextile>"
       end
 
       # The real plus sign
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ module RailsGuides
       body.gsub!(%r{<(yaml|shell|ruby|erb|html|sql|plain)>(.*?)</\1>}m) do |m|
         es = ERB::Util.h($2)
         css_class = $1.in?(['erb', 'shell']) ? 'html' : $1
-        %{&lt;notextile&gt;<div class="code_container"><code class="#{css_class}">#{es}</code></div>&lt;/notextile&gt;}
+        %{<notextile><div class="code_container"><code class="#{css_class}">#{es}</code></div></notextile>}
       end
     end
   end
 end
-