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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Please use our [bug report template][1].
 Testing is a little awkward because the test suite:
 
 1. Supports three major versions of rails: 3, 4, 5
-1. Sontains a rails app with three databases (test, foo, and bar)
+1. Contains a "dummy" rails app with three databases (test, foo, and bar)
 1. Supports three different RDBMS': sqlite, mysql, and postgres
 
 Test against rails 3: