diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
index 844876a973949e3dcf40198c688dba6ccd43e624..4b74fae94ec82e428551079b8c618257d192725e 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_validations_callbacks.textile
@@ -901,13 +901,8 @@ Below is a simple example where we change the Rails behavior to always display t
 
 <ruby>
 ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance|
-  if instance.error_message.kind_of?(Array)
-    %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;
-      #{instance.error_message.join(',')}</span>).html_safe
-  else
-    %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;
-      #{instance.error_message}</span>).html_safe
-  end
+  errors = Array(instance.error_message).join(',')
+  %(#{html_tag}<span class="validation-error">&nbsp;#{errors}</span>).html_safe
 end
 </ruby>