diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/README b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/README
index 27fa69f19da00d5129b24b3394d6405231543a7a..d7d3992a5418f8187a6d07a8eb02120a6a98a4fd 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/README
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/README
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ app/views/layouts
   Holds the template files for layouts to be used with views. This models the
   common header/footer method of wrapping views. In your views, define a layout
   using the <tt>layout :default</tt> and create a file named default.html.erb.
-  Inside default.html.erb, call <% yield %> to render the view using this
+  Inside default.html.erb, call <%= yield %> to render the view using this
   layout.
 
 app/helpers