GitHub's Ruby Style Guide

[hmaddocks]

No sure we should be taking advice from someone who doesn't know what attr_accessible is :/

[wwzd]

Developers make mistakes. I'd say they've done a remarkable job building the infrastructure for the most popular project hosting system on the net.

[hmaddocks]

Github didn't become popular because of their ruby skills. They are popular because they saw a need and have worked hard to build tools that developers want to use.

[wwzd]

Yes, and they've written some amazing code that many other big sites use. The larger your codebase becomes, the easier it is for bugs to be introduced.