From: Joel Pearson Date: 2013-01-06T01:25:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Best practice for &&, ||, and, or Well, you might already be familiar with this, but this is what I use: "Use &&/|| for boolean expressions, and/or for control flow. (Rule of thumb: If you have to use outer parentheses, you are using the wrong operators.)" Excerpt from: https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.