diff --git a/railties/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.textile b/railties/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.textile
index b7f4fbf35c5c1..2a8d7fbcdbf72 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/3_0_release_notes.textile
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ The new installing rails sequence (for the beta) is:
 
 <shell>
 $ gem install rails --prerelease
-$ rails myapp
+$ rails new myapp
 $ cd myapp
 </shell>
 
@@ -98,13 +98,13 @@ h4. Living on the Edge
 If you want to bundle straight from the Git repository, you can pass the +--edge+ flag:
 
 <shell>
-$ rails myapp --edge
+$ rails new myapp --edge
 </shell>
 
 If you have a local checkout of the Rails repository and want to generate an application using that, you can pass the +--dev+ flag:
 
 <shell>
-$ ruby /path/to/rails/bin/rails myapp --dev
+$ ruby /path/to/rails/bin/rails new myapp --dev
 </shell>
 
 h3. Rails Architectural Changes
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/generators.textile b/railties/guides/source/generators.textile
index b77a2837c3217..704a8793b240b 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/generators.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/generators.textile
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ h3. First contact
 When you create an application using the +rails+ command, you are in fact using a Rails generator. After that, you can get a list of all available generators by just invoking +rails generate+:
 
 <shell>
-$ rails myapp
+$ rails new myapp
 $ cd myapp
 $ rails generate
 </shell>
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
index 46e709d0f5cd9..89551a223d4e8 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ The best way to use this guide is to follow each step as it happens, no code or
 To begin, open a terminal, navigate to a folder where you have rights to create files, and type:
 
 <shell>
-$ rails blog
+$ rails new blog
 </shell>
 
 This will create a Rails application called Blog in a directory called blog.
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile b/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile
index baaa3d6d6605b..1af6f569572a3 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/rails_application_templates.textile
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ h3. Usage
 To apply a template, you need to provide the Rails generator with the location of the template you wish to apply, using -m option :
 
 <shell>
-$ rails blog -m ~/template.rb
+$ rails new blog -m ~/template.rb
 </shell>
 
 It's also possible to apply a template using a URL :
 
 <shell>
-$ rails blog -m http://gist.github.com/31208.txt
+$ rails new blog -m http://gist.github.com/31208.txt
 </shell>
 
 Alternatively, you can use the rake task +rails:template+ to apply a template to an existing Rails application :