diff --git a/lisp/langs/org-babel-sh.el b/lisp/langs/org-babel-sh.el
index 3b51dddb7..0cb46e234 100644
--- a/lisp/langs/org-babel-sh.el
+++ b/lisp/langs/org-babel-sh.el
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ then create.  Return the initialized session."
     (let* ((session (if session (intern session) :default))
            (sh-buffer (org-babel-sh-session-buffer session))
            (newp (not (org-babel-comint-buffer-livep sh-buffer))))
-      (if (and (get-buffer sh-buffer) (not (buffer-live-p sh-buffer)))
+      (if (and sh-buffer (get-buffer sh-buffer) (not (buffer-live-p sh-buffer)))
           (setq sh-buffer nil))
       (shell sh-buffer)
       (when newp
diff --git a/org-babel.org b/org-babel.org
index 5cc846617..acf5711eb 100644
--- a/org-babel.org
+++ b/org-babel.org
@@ -2003,14 +2003,12 @@ as.matrix(tab[2,])
 
 As an example eval the following.  Adding a line to test
 
-#+srcname: simple-ruby-array
-#+begin_src ruby :results silent
-[3, 4, 5]
-#+end_src
+#+tblname: simple-ruby-array
+| 3 | 4 | 5 |
 
 #+srcname: ruby-array-test
 #+begin_src ruby :var ar = simple-ruby-array :results silent
-ar.first
+ar.first.first
 #+end_src
 
 ** DONE space trailing language name
@@ -2104,6 +2102,7 @@ of these tests may fail.
 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
 | bugs and tasks          |                            |     |             |             | pass |
 |-------------------------+----------------------------+-----+-------------+-------------+------|
+|                         |                            |     |             |             | pass |
 | simple ruby arrays      | ruby-array-test            |     |           3 |           3 | pass |
 | R number evaluation     | bug-R-number-evaluation    |     |           2 |           2 | pass |
 | multi-line ruby blocks  | multi-line-ruby-test       |     |           2 |           2 | pass |