Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour?

Question

Which style of Ruby string quoting do you favour? Up until now I\'ve always used \'single quotes\' unless the string contains certain escape sequences or interp

Answer 1

Don't use double quotes if you have to escape them. And don't fall in "single vs double quotes" trap. Ruby has excellent support for arbitrary delimiters for string literals:

Mirror of Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20160310224440/http://rors.org/2008/10/26/dont-escape-in-strings

Original Site - http://rors.org/2008/10/26/dont-escape-in-strings