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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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page 269, running rspec
These tests pass (after you update the .gemspec file):
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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 187, last paragraph, line 7 :
(again, with the exception of the Ractor library). Ruby installations that do want to t...
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page 468, reference/kwargs_2.rb produces no output :
% ruby -w reference/kwargs_2.rb
%
Adding puts to the last line shows...
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In Programming Ruby 1.9, 2010 edition, this hash in page 21 was nicely aligned ;
inst_section = {
'cello' =>...
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First line while (line = gets) would be better Ruby as
while line = gets.
Even Scala 3 has been Rubyfied and suppressed th...
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page 351, in Getting Started with Rubocop, executing $ rubocop
I have re-downloaded the code from the book, cd to /ruby_sty...
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page 204, paragraph 7 (counting code and output for one), line 2 :
Subsequently, the last source.take returns nil and ends ...
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Already in the previous edition !
page 381, second code, second of the four puts : animal is a dog, not a cat
puts "I...
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page 355, paragraph 3, line 2 :
figuration or by running rubocop -a to auto correct (which will fix all but the first issue...
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page 455, compared with The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto, O’Reilly 2008, there is so...
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Page 185, last example
response = http.get('/book/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9')
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page 274, paragraph after Packaging Your RubyGem, first line : you’ll can create
Once the gem specification is complete, yo...
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page 225 or even 220
It would be worth noting that adding -fd or --format documentation as option to rspec makes a nicer output with all...
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page 269, paragraph after the code, first bullet
• You won’t be able to run this without also updating the .gemspec file as...
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page 444-5 : It would be nice if the layout of page 445 could be changed so that end}, which appears after Table 11, would a...
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page 203, first paragraph, line 2-3 :
ractor. The entrance lines are infinite, and the sending call is guaranteed not to b...
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page 205, paragraph after the code, line 2 :
then blocks at Ractor.receive. Only then do we create the reading ractor
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page 220, in Starting to Score Tennis Matches, second paragraph, line 2 : missing “, see” before the link to chapter 15
dri...
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And if you put a tilde after the characters you can indent the text.
Would be b...
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page 352, first bullet :
• I is used for “info.” It’s rare for an “info” failure will be reported, but not counted as a
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page 455, what about completing Table 13—Ruby operators with :: and . ?
I was surprised not to find the scope resolution op...
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page 238, in ARGF, paragraph 3, line 5 : have finished instead of finishing ???
point, when you finishing reading from the ...
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page 212, in Structuring Tests, paragraph 2 : missing colon ?
You include the testing framework facilities in your unit by ...
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Page 181, paragraph 4
$ ruby copy.rb testfile
% ruby -w copy.rb testfile
copy.rb:9:in `gets’: No such file or directory...
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page 245, last paragraph : for me, executing rake doesn’t display the directory :
% rake delete_unix_backups
rm env.rb~ pig...
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Page 111, example tut_modules/vowel_finder_sum.rb
All this code with three classes including Summable for only one line of ...
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page 240, last paragraph, lines 5-7 : the short option can have a space
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … There’s ...
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Page 126, Ranges as Intervals, paragraph 3 :
The triple equal version is often used in case statements:
I thought it was...
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