What is your style? ':this_style =>' vs 'this_style:' or depends?

[Brandon]

I noticed Michael Hartl's tutorials seem to use this ':this_style =>' more. What is your take on this?

[Walter Lee Davis]

They both work, it's just a matter of personal style. I find that I get confused easily with the whatever: style, I start to think in terms of CSS and my Ruby brain shuts down.

Walter

On Mar 20, 2014, at 5:27 AM, Brandon wrote:

> I noticed Michael Hartl's tutorials seem to use this ':this_style =>' more. What is your take on this?
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[Robin Solanki]

Agree with Walter its the matter of your preference but I do prefer the
new style without the rocket.

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[Dave Aronson]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:27 AM, Brandon <wong...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed Michael Hartl's tutorials seem to use this ':this_style =>' more.
> What is your take on this?

I prefer the newer "key: value" style -- partly because I work with
JSON frequently, so this way is consistent. Other than that, ask five
devs and you'll get seven opinions....

-Dave

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[Vladimir Rybas]

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

[tamouse pontiki]

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.

[Brandon]

Visually I find the hash rocket style really unnerving.. I don't know why! Just like the "<<" which is supposed to be more efficient than "+". Just pains me to see them but I'm trying to adhere to best practices too.