Re: [Rails-devel] Patchfiles

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 23:53 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes.  4 space indents, expand tab characters to spaces is 
> > fine by me.
> > 
> > My current setting is 4 with tabs, but in fact I almost never 
> > reformat, 
> > because the formatter tends to break lines in ways I don't like.
> > I'm pretty good at formatting manually (he boasted), but no doubt
> > tabs and spaces get mixed this way.
> > 
> > But I agree that it's time to sort this out. 
> 
> I have committed an experimental formatting standard for Eclipse named
> Rails-format.xml (in CVS under 18xx).
> It is an export from a new standard named "Rails" that I created out of the
> Eclipse default.
> The main change is, that tabs are not used at all - I found that advice in
> several places.
> For the rest it is... well, the way I like it...  
>  
> Erik.


Sounds good.

We should start building out some developer documentation on the
website/wiki, starting with a CodingStyle page. Perhaps Iain has time to
do this?


 ---Brett.


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