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namelessjon committed Mar 22, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ <h2>Contributing Code to Merb</h2>
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Contributing to Merb is as easy as checking the source out from Github, editing it, and creating a patch. <a href="http://gweezlebur.com/2008/2/1/so-you-want-to-contribute-to-merb-core-part-1">Learn all about using git, Github, and making patches.</a>
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<pre><code>$ git clone git://github.com/wycats/merb-core.git<br />$ cd merb-core<br />$ vim the_source_file.rb<br />$ git commit -a -m "fix a bug"<br />$ git-format-patch master..</code></pre>
<pre><code>$ git clone git://github.com/merb/merb.git<br />$ cd merb-core<br />$ vim the_source_file.rb<br />$ git commit -a -m "fix a bug"<br />$ git-format-patch master..</code></pre>
<h2>Code Style Guidelines</h2>
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There are a few guidelines your code should follow.
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<h3>2. Two space indent</h3>
<pre><code># BAD!<br />def tabby<br /> puts "A fat tab!"<br />end<br /><br /># GOOD!<br />def tabby<br /> puts "Two spaces!"<br />end</code></pre>
<h3>3. Documentation is required</h3>
<p>As of 0.9, Merb has a new documentation system. It will be slightly changing for 1.0; for now, please follow these guidelines.</p>
<p>We would like to move merb over to a <a href="http://yardoc.org/">YARD</a> based documentation system. To that end, we ask if you touch a file,
update it to YARD syntax.</p>
<p>The old style of the documentation follows this system:</p>
<p>There are a number of available types:</p>
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<li>Class (e.g. <code>String</code>)</li>
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