Remove out-of-date references to jQuery

Fixes #31703

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
index e6d5aed135..618896d458 100644
--- a/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
+++ b/guides/source/asset_pipeline.md
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ The asset pipeline provides a framework to concatenate and minify or compress
 JavaScript and CSS assets. It also adds the ability to write these assets in
 other languages and pre-processors such as CoffeeScript, Sass and ERB.
 It allows assets in your application to be automatically combined with assets
-from other gems. For example, jquery-rails includes a copy of jquery.js
-and enables AJAX features in Rails.
+from other gems.
 
 The asset pipeline is implemented by the
 [sprockets-rails](https://github.com/rails/sprockets-rails) gem,
@@ -1205,10 +1204,10 @@ Adding Assets to Your Gems
 
 Assets can also come from external sources in the form of gems.
 
-A good example of this is the `jquery-rails` gem which comes with Rails as the
-standard JavaScript library gem. This gem contains an engine class which
-inherits from `Rails::Engine`. By doing this, Rails is informed that the
-directory for this gem may contain assets and the `app/assets`, `lib/assets` and
+A good example of this is the `jquery-rails` gem.
+This gem contains an engine class which inherits from `Rails::Engine`.
+By doing this, Rails is informed that the directory for this
+gem may contain assets and the `app/assets`, `lib/assets` and
 `vendor/assets` directories of this engine are added to the search path of
 Sprockets.
 
@@ -1244,11 +1243,7 @@ moving the files from `public/` to the new locations. See [Asset
 Organization](#asset-organization) above for guidance on the correct locations
 for different file types.
 
-Next will be avoiding duplicate JavaScript files. Since jQuery is the default
-JavaScript library from Rails 3.1 onwards, you don't need to copy `jquery.js`
-into `app/assets` and it will be included automatically.
-
-The third is updating the various environment files with the correct default
+Next is updating the various environment files with the correct default
 options.
 
 In `application.rb`: