diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
index 63bb4ce32f2dcbaacf60313e32ca0266c95289c0..f2a74ea647894960e8427009c5304c7db367f4cb 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ module Helpers
     #
     # In particular, thanks to the conventions followed in the generated field names, the
     # controller gets a nested hash <tt>params[:person]</tt> with the person attributes
-    # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to <tt>Person.create</tt>:
+    # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to <tt>Person.new</tt>:
     #
-    #   @person = Person.create(params[:person])
-    #   if @person.valid?
+    #   @person = Person.new(params[:person])
+    #   if @person.save
     #     # success
     #   else
     #     # error handling