diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
index 3f5829d86ac753768405c379d0d2bbb907a1c4ce..ad097f2eb78e87060bfb6f2045310ae796a1616a 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def convert_to_model(object)
       #     First name: <%= f.text_field :first_name %>
       #     Last name : <%= f.text_field :last_name %>
       #     Biography : <%= text_area :person, :biography %>
-      #     Admin?    : <%= check_box_tag "person[admin]", @person.company.admin? %>
+      #     Admin?    : <%= check_box_tag "person[admin]", "1", @person.company.admin? %>
       #     <%= f.submit %>
       #   <% end %>
       #
diff --git a/guides/source/form_helpers.textile b/guides/source/form_helpers.textile
index 8934667c5e887f04093b969c9940de6325e2960c..b6420db7984cb4b872e62c6866a284b7a6159cf6 100644
--- a/guides/source/form_helpers.textile
+++ b/guides/source/form_helpers.textile
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ form_tag(:controller => "people", :action => "search", :method => "get", :class
 # => '<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/people/search?method=get&class=nifty_form" method="post">'
 </ruby>
 
-Here, +method+ and +class+ are appended to the query string of the generated URL because you even though you mean to write two hashes, you really only specified one. So you need to tell Ruby which is which by delimiting the first hash (or both) with curly brackets. This will generate the HTML you expect:
+Here, +method+ and +class+ are appended to the query string of the generated URL because even though you mean to write two hashes, you really only specified one. So you need to tell Ruby which is which by delimiting the first hash (or both) with curly brackets. This will generate the HTML you expect:
 
 <ruby>
 form_tag({:controller => "people", :action => "search"}, :method => "get", :class => "nifty_form")