The last several clients I have worked for loved to publish huge coding standards documents. A recent one was only 20 pages long (and that was one of the shorter ones).

While browsing the new Rails 1.0 web site1, I stumbled upon the Rails coding standard. Here it is in full (link):

• Two spaces, no tabs
• MyClass.my_method(my_arg)—not my_method( my_arg ) or my_method my_arg
• Follow the conventions you see used in the source already

¹ You did know that Rails 1.0 was released today, right?