Ruby on Rails

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Vladimir Rybas <vladim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the [Github Ruby Styleguide][1] there's a note about Hashes:
>
> `Use hashrocket syntax for Hash literals instead of the JSON style
> introduced in 1.9.`
>
> I guess the reason is that if you use hashrocket syntax, you can use
> any type as a hash key, while with colon the keys are `Symbol` only.
> So, you'll (pretty much) always have two styles in your app.
>
> Strict styleguides are important. What if we all start to do crazy
> things like `@VARIABLE` or `CamelCaseConstant = [1, 2, 3]`? (and I've
> seen such cases, unfortunately).
>
> But in this particular case with hashes, I personally use mixed style.
> So, colon for simple key-value hashes, where value is not a `Symbol`
> itself. And hashrocket for mixed DSL hashes with "complex" values.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/styleguide/ruby

I have been generally following the GH style guide, but not the
hashrocket thing, unless a client mandates it. One thing to note:
Github itself as a huge codebase, the main site still runs Rails 2.x,
and it makes sense when you have a long term code base, to keep a
consistent style across it. I'm not so sure that one needs to be so
slavish to that though if you aren't writing code for GH.