diff --git a/config/puma.rb b/config/puma.rb
index d14ae5dd6ca..265960d9924 100644
--- a/config/puma.rb
+++ b/config/puma.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # First, you need to change these below to your situation.
 APP_ROOT = '/home/discourse/discourse'
-num_worker=ENV["NUM_WEBS"].to_i > 0 ? ENV["NUM_WEBS"].to_i : 4
+num_workers = ENV["NUM_WEBS"].to_i > 0 ? ENV["NUM_WEBS"].to_i : 4
 
 # Second, you can choose how many threads that you are going to run at same time.
 workers "#{num_workers}"