diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
index bd2260fc2991ab6f19ba97b968cc47f0382ba0ad..67a9a6030d5ae1ccc98b6db14a91d66acf1038e5 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 rescue LoadError
   puts "Thor is not available.\nIf you ran this command from a git checkout " \
        "of Rails, please make sure thor is installed,\nand run this command " \
-       "as `ruby /path/to/rails myapp --dev`"
+       "as `ruby /path/to/rails new myapp --dev`"
   exit
 end