diff --git a/railties/html/500.html b/railties/html/500.html
index 74142cb04a..ec3bbf02c4 100644
--- a/railties/html/500.html
+++ b/railties/html/500.html
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@
   <div class="dialog">
     <h1>We're sorry, but something went wrong.</h1>
     <p>We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.</p>
-    <p><small>(If you're the administrator of this website, then please read
-    the log file "<%= "<%s>" % "%=h RAILS_ENV %" %>.log"
-    to find out what went wrong.)</small></p>
   </div>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/railties/test/error_page_test.rb b/railties/test/error_page_test.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index f819e468e8..0000000000
--- a/railties/test/error_page_test.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-require 'abstract_unit'
-require 'action_controller'
-require 'action_controller/test_case'
-
-RAILS_ENV = "test"
-CURRENT_DIR = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
-HTML_DIR = File.expand_path(File.join(CURRENT_DIR, "..", "html"))
-
-module Rails
-  def self.public_path
-    CURRENT_DIR
-  end
-end
-
-class ErrorPageController < ActionController::Base
-  def crash
-    raise StandardError, "crash!"
-  end
-end
-
-ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
-  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
-end
-
-class ErrorPageControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
-  def setup
-    ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local = false
-    rescue_action_in_public!
-  end
-
-  def test_500_error_page_instructs_system_administrator_to_check_log_file
-    template = ERB.new(File.read(File.join(HTML_DIR, "500.html")))
-    File.open(File.join(CURRENT_DIR, "500.html"), "w") do |f|
-      f.write(template.result)
-    end
-    get :crash
-    expected_log_file = "#{RAILS_ENV}.log"
-    assert_not_nil @response.body.index(expected_log_file), @response.body
-  end
-end