Programming Ruby 3.3

Chapter 21Ruby Style

As you become familiar with Ruby and the Ruby community, you will see references to “Ruby style” or “idiomatic Ruby.” These terms refer to the way in which developers who love Ruby tend to write Ruby code. Ruby provides a broad range of allowed syntax and different ways of performing similar tasks and interacting with existing code. Ruby is such a flexible language that style and community standards of practice go a long way toward keeping Ruby code readable from project to project.

There are two distinct kinds of Ruby style. The first is the kind that’s syntax-based, governs how you write individual lines and small blocks of code, and can (to some extent) be evaluated by a linting program. In this chapter, we’ll discuss ...