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Most “rules” about {…} vs. do…end are nonsense. I tend to use {…} unless I can't be bothered to put parens around the arguments.

• ryeguy 15y ago
  They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else). I'd honestly pass on an open source project not following the generally agreed upon ruby standard.
  • seanp2k2 15y ago
    >"They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else)." That's my reasoning too. At first, I thought it was more readable (read: familiar) to use curly braces, but now I stick with do...end for blocks >1 line. Sometimes it's helpful for breaking up complex nested map() blocks as well.
  • rue 15y ago
    …Except that that isn't “the community standard”. It's one of the more popular varieties, of about equal support with {…} for when you use the return value.