diff --git a/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Growing.pod b/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Growing.pod
index c1d2843bf8..9dae759cbb 100644
--- a/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Growing.pod
+++ b/lib/Mojolicious/Guides/Growing.pod
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Sessions in L<Mojolicious> pretty much just work out of the box once you start u
 L<Mojolicious::Controller/"session">, there is no setup required, but we suggest setting a more secure passphrase with
 L<Mojolicious/"secrets">.
 
-  $app->secrets(['Mojolicious rocks']);
+  app->secrets(['Mojolicious rocks']);
 
 This passphrase is used by the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm to make signed cookies tamper resistant and can be changed at any
 time to invalidate all existing sessions.