diff --git a/activerecord/examples/validation.rb b/activerecord/examples/validation.rb
index 334a1685f78df227eaae7c528282d4fecc9519f1..e6a448afb8a65a700fcda57d23d1a8a6db5c2b17 100644
--- a/activerecord/examples/validation.rb
+++ b/activerecord/examples/validation.rb
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@
 # Class setup ---------------
 
 class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
-  # Active Record can only guess simple table names like Card/cards, Company/companies
-  def self.table_name() "people" end
-
   # Using 
   def self.authenticate(name, pass)
     # find_first "name = '#{name}' AND pass = '#{pass}'" would be open to sql-injection (in a web-app scenario)