# Found errors in The Ruby Programming Language book?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/found-errors-in-the-ruby-programming-language-book/134117>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/found-errors-in-the-ruby-programming-language-book/134117 "2008-04-08T00:27:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/found-errors-in-the-ruby-programming-language-book/134117/1 "2008-04-08T00:27:37Z")

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O’Reilly is going to be reprinting _The Ruby P.ming Language_  
next week, and are allowing me to fix errors in the book this week.  
If you’ve found typos, errors, omissions, etc., in the book, please  
let me know about them so I can improve the book for future readers.  
My website is [davidflanagan.com](http://davidflanagan.com), and you can report errors with a  
comment to my blog, or you can email them to me: I’m david@ that  
website.  
(Normally, you’d submit errors to the publisher’s website  
[Errata - O'Reilly Media](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/errata/), but in this case  
time is a little short, and I’d like to hear more directly from you.)

This is just a reprint, not a new edition, so I can’t do things like  
add whole new sections of material or insert tables or figures. But I  
can fix errors and insert short new paragraphs to correct or clarify.

Thanks for your help!

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David Flanagan

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/found-errors-in-the-ruby-programming-language-book/134117/2 "2008-04-15T06:40:47Z")

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Thanks to everyone who helped me by reporting errors for the reprint  
of _The Ruby P.ming Language_. I made 81 changes to the text.  
Many of them are just typos or similar non-technical things, but some  
are errors that are fixed, and a number are updates to keep the book  
in sync with recent changes to 1.9 (and 1.8.7). See

[http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2008\_04.html#000160](http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2008_04.html#000160)

for the complete list of changes.

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David Flanagan

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