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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources Routes to Create Actions Route to Create Pages

Christopher Phillips
Christopher Phillips
10,061 Points

Quotation convention

I find myself primarily using double quotes instead of single quotes in areas such as:

post "/pages", to: "pages#create"

I do this because I'm used to enclosing classes in HTML with double quotes as well. It just seems straight forward forme to stick to this method. But Jay is using single quotes on the above example.

Is there a specific standard within Ruby/Rails I should be aware of? I don't want to apply for jobs and have someone site my noob status because I'm using double where single is norm.

1 Answer

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

There really isn't one Ruby-wide standard. As long as you're consistent within a project, you'll be fine. See also https://github.com/rubocop-hq/ruby-style-guide#consistent-string-literals .