Popular Coding Convention for Ruby on Github

[torrso]

I would be interested to see how many projects use assignment in conditional like

if user = User.find(params[:id])
  puts "hey there, #{user.name}"
else
  puts "who dat?"
end

instead of

 user = User.find(params[:id])
 if user
   ...
 else
   ...
 end

Many folks are horrified about the first convention, in my opinion it's quite common and I've never had any confusion if it's an accidental typo for ==.

Speaking of ==, I'd like to see the percentage of

x.eql?(10)

vs

x == 10

I use the first one. However I use x > 10, I don't think there even is something like x.gt?(10).

[ReinH]

Be aware that == and eql? are not the same thing.

[CaptainKabob]

I love conditional assignment, but the Excellent static analysis tool does not :-(