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 params[:person] with the person attributes
- # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to Person.create:
+ # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to Person.new:
#
- # @person = Person.create(params[:person])
- # if @person.valid?
+ # @person = Person.new(params[:person])
+ # if @person.save
# # success
# else
# # error handling