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 Application Templates
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-Now that you've seen how generators can be used _inside_ an application, did you know they can also be used to _generate_ applications too? This kind of generator is referred as a "template". This is a brief overview of the Templates API. For detailed documentation see the [Rails Application Templates guide](rails_application_templates.html).
+Now that you've seen how generators can be used _inside_ an application, did you know they can also be used to _generate_ applications too? This kind of generator is referred to as a "template". This is a brief overview of the Templates API. For detailed documentation see the [Rails Application Templates guide](rails_application_templates.html).
 
 ```ruby
 gem "rspec-rails", group: "test"