diff --git a/actioncable/lib/rails/generators/channel/USAGE b/actioncable/lib/rails/generators/channel/USAGE
index 27a934c689fa0c800ec1df765979fe133f673da3..6249553c2226ff8f96e51732a43bc2c264d731f5 100644
--- a/actioncable/lib/rails/generators/channel/USAGE
+++ b/actioncable/lib/rails/generators/channel/USAGE
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description:
     Stubs out a new cable channel for the server (in Ruby) and client (in CoffeeScript).
     Pass the channel name, either CamelCased or under_scored, and an optional list of channel actions as arguments.
 
-    Note: Turn on the cable connection in app/assets/javascript/cable.coffee after generating any channels.
+    Note: Turn on the cable connection in app/assets/javascript/cable.js after generating any channels.
 
 Example:
 ========
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
index 7bab3fdf74f02f616683ca206cd282495a88cd54..4542808306f6b6eb5ebce9a8d2fc32e764a5b311 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ def delete_active_record_initializers_skipping_active_record
       def delete_action_cable_files_skipping_action_cable
         if options[:skip_action_cable]
           remove_file 'config/cable.yml'
-          remove_file 'app/assets/javascripts/cable.coffee'
+          remove_file 'app/assets/javascripts/cable.js'
           remove_dir 'app/channels'
         end
       end
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.coffee b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.coffee
deleted file mode 100644
index af08f58e340d9ab1a32fb0f894cdc7ca9b7dd12f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.coffee
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Action Cable provides the framework to deal with WebSockets in Rails.
-# You can generate new channels where WebSocket features live using the rails generate channel command.
-#
-#= require action_cable
-#= require_self
-#= require_tree ./channels
-
-@App ||= {}
-App.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer()
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.js b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71ee1e66de2ca69297c0e3434f452b3a09e26e9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/app/assets/javascripts/cable.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// Action Cable provides the framework to deal with WebSockets in Rails.
+// You can generate new channels where WebSocket features live using the rails generate channel command.
+//
+//= require action_cable
+//= require_self
+//= require_tree ./channels
+
+(function() {
+  this.App || (this.App = {});
+
+  App.cable = ActionCable.createConsumer();
+
+}).call(this);
diff --git a/railties/test/application/rake_test.rb b/railties/test/application/rake_test.rb
index 92ae3edc08f0b1368ee21989feb62636e525ac03..dc3c4755c7ab686f08adb087b109e08ee55f19b4 100644
--- a/railties/test/application/rake_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/application/rake_test.rb
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def test_should_not_eager_load_model_for_rake
     end
 
     def test_code_statistics_sanity
-      assert_match "Code LOC: 16     Test LOC: 0     Code to Test Ratio: 1:0.0",
+      assert_match "Code LOC: 18     Test LOC: 0     Code to Test Ratio: 1:0.0",
         Dir.chdir(app_path){ `bin/rails stats` }
     end
 
diff --git a/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb b/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
index 63655044da9013acfa36237c76f9aaa81b07e517..35be6ce03a06a0b94a51dac9b58c63943c53c691 100644
--- a/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/generators/app_generator_test.rb
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ def test_generator_if_skip_action_cable_is_given
     run_generator [destination_root, "--skip-action-cable"]
     assert_file "config/application.rb", /#\s+require\s+["']action_cable\/engine["']/
     assert_no_file "config/cable.yml"
-    assert_no_file "app/assets/javascripts/cable.coffee"
+    assert_no_file "app/assets/javascripts/cable.js"
     assert_no_file "app/channels"
     assert_file "Gemfile" do |content|
       assert_no_match(/redis/, content)