diff --git a/ruby/extractor/src/extractor.rs b/ruby/extractor/src/extractor.rs
index db280634ae5..f5557e5a188 100644
--- a/ruby/extractor/src/extractor.rs
+++ b/ruby/extractor/src/extractor.rs
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ struct Visitor<'a> {
     schema: &'a NodeTypeMap,
     /// A stack for gathering information from child nodes. Whenever a node is
     /// entered the parent's [Label], child counter, and an empty list is pushed.
-    /// All children append their data to the the list. When the visitor leaves a
+    /// All children append their data to the list. When the visitor leaves a
     /// node the list containing the child data is popped from the stack and
     /// matched against the dbscheme for the node. If the expectations are met
     /// the corresponding row definitions are added to the trap_output.
diff --git a/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/frameworks/core/IO.qll b/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/frameworks/core/IO.qll
index 9eff02a4a57..0828a6dcea7 100644
--- a/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/frameworks/core/IO.qll
+++ b/ruby/ql/lib/codeql/ruby/frameworks/core/IO.qll
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ module IO {
    * popen([env,] cmd, mode="r" [, opt]) -> io
    * popen([env,] cmd, mode="r" [, opt]) {|io| block } -> obj
    * ```
-   * `IO.popen` does different things based on the the value of `cmd`:
+   * `IO.popen` does different things based on the value of `cmd`:
    * ```
    * "-"                                      : fork
    * commandline                              : command line string which is passed to a shell