Create style guidelines

[johana-star]

The project should have clear style guidelines for contributors. Let's add a style guideline to the contributing guide. I would recommend that we default to the [https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide](ruby Style Guide) except when it does not specify a guideline, in which case we should make a project specific guideline and retain specificity towards that.

What do you think @tkwidmer and @kiesia?

[kiesia]

I'm totally happy to follow houndci's recommendations. I think they make a lot of sense, and it's a big win to have everyone writing code in the same style. That said there are often times where they shouldn't be applied, like on generated code.

[tkwidmer]

we can customize houndci so that it fits our own styleguide exactly. I thinking using hound is going to be really good as we move forward so that our code will stay as uniform as possible.

https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop/blob/master/config/enabled.yml

[tkwidmer]

the details about how to configure are here: https://houndci.com/configuration

currently its using the default thoughtbot styleguide

[johana-star]

To complete one should concurrently:

• [ ] Create a style guide
• [ ] Configure Hound to follow that style guide

I'm interested but low bandwidth as per usual.

[tkwidmer]

same. bandwith has been a problem for me lately.

[tkwidmer]

I've turned off hound until we get the styleguide in place.

[CBID2]

Hey @strand! :) I’d love to help create a style guide for working with the product’s documentation. It’ll help contributors gain experience in tech writing and give non-coders a way to support the project.