diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index 4074eac7e77a5..7becefee097ed 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@ That syntactic sugar is used a lot in Rails to avoid positional arguments where If a method expects a variable number of arguments and uses * in its declaration, however, such an options hash ends up being an item of the array of arguments, where it loses its role. -In those cases, you may give an options hash a distinguished treatment with +extract_options!+. That method checks the type of the last item of an array. If it is a hash it pops it and returns it, otherwise returns an empty hash. +In those cases, you may give an options hash a distinguished treatment with +extract_options!+. This method checks the type of the last item of an array. If it is a hash it pops it and returns it, otherwise it returns an empty hash. Let's see for example the definition of the +caches_action+ controller macro: