From: James Britt Date: 2007-01-22T06:06:32+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby coding guidelines? Chris Carter wrote: > On 1/21/07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> Is there in the Ruby community anything like "ruby coding convention"? >> >> Google returns two interesting links: >> - >> http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=RubyCodingConvention >> >> - http://www.caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml#style >> >> Are they "authoritative" for some meaning of the word? :) >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Cheers. >> >> -- >> Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy >> zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ >> (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the >> (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time >> >> > There is no official/authoritative Style Sheet/Coding Conventions but > those two put together are what most of the community uses There is also style guide on the RubyGarden wiki (http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby) , but the wiki doesn't seem to be responding right now. -- James Britt "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - H. Abelson and G. Sussman (in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)