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The second to last line of Ruby code reads:
expect(instance).to have_attriubtes(color: "blue")
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Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used t...
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Hi @noelrappin,
first of all: It’s SO good to read an updated version of this book! Thanks for all the effort! :pray:
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Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition) (PragProg), Beta release, p 295, under the subheading “Querying the System”, 2nd paragrap...
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“Alternately you can list one or more specific paths (.rb or .rbi files after the tc) to limit checking,”
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page 274, in Packaging Your RubyGem, paragraph 2, command $ gem build
Missing README.md in code/gems/aaagmnr :
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“The order of the keys in the hash is stable and will alway match the order in which the keys were added to the hash.”
shou...
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“One thing you might find unusual is that in the second clause Ruby uses the keyword eslif—one word, missing an “e”—to indicate “else if”...
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@noelrappin On page 68 of the PDF in the paragraph preceding the fib_up_to method definition, the word “we” is duplicated.
The text read...
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+++++ page 49 Reopening Classes
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the most unique features of Ruby’s class structure: The ability to ...
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The beginning of the 4th paragraph from the bottom:
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@noelrappin On page 89 of the PDF in the last sentence of the last paragraph of the page and just before the example that begins “class C...
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On page xii of the Preface, the paragraph beginning with, “Here, you can see…,” has an error in the last sentence. Following...
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page 335, second to last line : colon instead of period at end of sentence :
call, either of those can be arguments to run:...
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“…interpolation inside it will automatically be frozen, as though freeze as called on it.”
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In the third sentence of the first full paragraph on page 19, the word “response” is used when “responds” should be used ins...
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In the beginning of the second sentence of the paragraph just before the “What is rbenv Actually Doing?” aside block, the se...
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page 269, running rspec
These tests pass (after you update the .gemspec file):
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First of all, thank you so much @noelrappin for writing this book, I am just starting with Ruby and this book is very helpful.
I just wa...
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I’m not Anglophone, so I’m not sure. Third paragraph from end of page 21, second line : Idiomatic Ruby tends to
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@noelrappin in the first sentence of the second paragraph of page 14 the text includes a “for” that shouldn’t be there:
“The official Ru...
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Already in the previous edition !
page 373, third paragraph, first line : built in to or built into ?
But when you metapr...
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page 339, third paragraph from bottom, line 3 : twice the
pulling in both Sinatra itself, and the the Thin web server, when...
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@noelrappin on page 17 at the end of the last sentence in the paragraph following the heading “Ruby Is an Object-Oriented Language” the ...
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On page 36 of the PDF, the first sentence of the paragraph following the demonstration of puts making use of the to_s method...
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p. 356, example method in section “Ruby Style in the Large”, the definition for the first example of method “send_promotion_...
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Duplicate word: “We don’t need to declare the symbols or assign assign them a value…”
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@noelrappin Thanks for all your effort with this new edition of the Pickaxe!
On page 13 of the PDF in the second paragraph the word “it”...
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page 323, paragraph 4, line 2 : $rdoc ?
will likely use approximately never, see $rdoc --help for a full rundown.
The do...
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page 472, paragraph after Safe Navigation, line 2 : twice is
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