Make the guide more friendly

- Changed Rails 3.0 to 3.0+
rails · Nov 13, 2011 · 3e3872b · 3e3872b
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile
@@ -747,8 +747,9 @@ while the console is open, type +reload!+ at the console prompt to load them.
 
 h4. Listing All Posts
 
-The easiest place to start looking at functionality is with the code that lists
-all posts. Open the file +app/controllers/posts_controller.rb+ and look at the
+Let's dive into the Rails code a little deeper to see how the application is
+showing us the list of Posts. Open the file 
++app/controllers/posts_controller.rb+ and look at the
 +index+ action:
 
 <ruby>
@@ -762,9 +763,9 @@ def index
 end
 </ruby>
 
-+Post.all+ calls the +Post+ model to return all of the posts currently in the
-database. The result of this call is an array of posts that we store in an
-instance variable called +@posts+.
++Post.all+ calls the all method on the +Post+ model, which returns all of 
+the posts currently in the database. The result of this call is an array 
+of Post records that we store in an instance variable called +@posts+.
 
 TIP: For more information on finding records with Active Record, see "Active
 Record Query Interface":active_record_querying.html.
@@ -815,7 +816,7 @@ and links. A few things to note in the view:
 
 NOTE. In previous versions of Rails, you had to use +&lt;%=h post.name %&gt;+ so
 that any HTML would be escaped before being inserted into the page. In Rails
-3.0, this is now the default. To get unescaped HTML, you now use +&lt;%= raw
+3.0+, this is now the default. To get unescaped HTML, you now use +&lt;%= raw
 post.name %&gt;+.
 
 TIP: For more details on the rendering process, see "Layouts and Rendering in
@@ -829,9 +830,10 @@ Rails renders a view to the browser, it does so by putting the view's HTML into
 a layout's HTML. In previous versions of Rails, the +rails generate scaffold+
 command would automatically create a controller specific layout, like
 +app/views/layouts/posts.html.erb+, for the posts controller. However this has
-been changed in Rails 3.0. An application specific +layout+ is used for all the
+been changed in Rails 3.0+. An application specific +layout+ is used for all the
 controllers and can be found in +app/views/layouts/application.html.erb+. Open
-this layout in your editor and modify the +body+ tag:
+this layout in your editor and modify the +body+ tag to include the style directive
+below:
 
 <erb>
 <!DOCTYPE html>