[rspec-users] Indentation Conventions for Ruby and Cucumber

[Andrew Premdas]

Definitely a matter of taste. A few things

1) syntax highlighting seems to make aligning on the I more preferable
2) And's feel like there nested
3) Maybe its my programmers eye reading and looking for matches rather than
reading the scenario as a whole

Is a feature prose? Seems closer to poetry in layout at least


2008/12/4 Peter Jaros <peter.a.jaros at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Andrew Premdas <apremdas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oh but cucumber features so want to be idented on the I
> >
> >  Scenario: Anonymous user can not duplicate a un-activated account
> >    Given I am an anonymous user
> >      And a registered user Fred exists
> >     When I signup as Fred
> >     Then I should see an error
>
> I have to disagree.  I find the jagged margin looks messy.  I would
> never indent other prose this way, so why would I indent my features
> this way?  They're not code, they're prose.  They're not written to be
> parsed, they're written to be read like a story.
>
> Peter
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