Code Style Consistency for Shopify’s Decade-Old Codebase

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng at 22 Sept 2017, 16:34 UTC

5 minute read Over the course of Shopify's 13-year codebase history, the core platform has never been rewritten. That meant a slew of outdated code styles, piling atop of one another and without a lot of consistency. By 2012, our CEO Tobi created a draft Ruby style guide to keep up with the growth…

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• T1Code Style Consistency for Shopify’s Decade-Old CodebaseStripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng22 Sept 2017, 16:34