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    copied!<p>I'd like to get some community input on best practices for styling your ERB templates.</p> <ul> <li>I use a Tab Width of 2.</li> <li>I use soft tabs (spaces).</li> <li>I use a Word Wrap of 80.</li> </ul> <p>I indent all my HTML tags in addition to Ruby code inside my ERB templates.</p> <p>This usually makes for very readable ERB.</p> <p>Assuming the above or similar parameters, how do you prefer indent longer lines? </p> <p>Consider this example:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="content"&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="span10"&gt; &lt;%= simple_form_for(@user, html: { class: 'form-horizontal' }) do |f| %&gt; &lt;%= f.input :MembershipID, label: 'Membership ID :', hint: 'Use the user\'s official Membership ID if they have one. Otherwise, enter their phone number (e.g. 2125551234)', input_html: { value: @user[:MembershipID] } %&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>The <strong>f.input</strong> line gets to be pretty ugly and unreadable.</p> <p>I was thinking something like this would be ideal, but I wanted to get some feedback before changing a lot of my style.</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="content"&gt; &lt;div class="row"&gt; &lt;div class="span10"&gt; &lt;%= simple_form_for(@user, html: { class: 'form-horizontal' }) do |f| %&gt; &lt;%= f.input :MembershipID, label: 'Membership ID :', hint: 'Use the user\'s official Membership ID if they have one. Otherwise, enter their phone number (e.g. 2125551234)', input_html: { value: @user[:MembershipID] } %&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'm back and forth on whether double indenting from the ERB begin tag <strong>&lt;%=</strong> or from the helper name <strong>f.input</strong> is better.</p> <p>Please weigh in! (and please let's not turn this into a ERB vs HAML debate, assume ERB only!)</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
 

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