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

I see arguments for both:

For using mostly double quotes:

• The github ruby style guideline advocates always using double quotes:

• It's easier to search for a string foobar by searching for "foobar" if you were consistent with quoting. However, I'm not. So I search for ['"]foobar['"] turning on regexps.

For using some combination of single double quotes:

• Know if you need to look for string interpolation.
• Might be slightly faster (although so slight it wasn't enough to affect the github style guide).