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A set of rules we use at @icalialabs to build better software

Guides

Icalia Guides is the programming style used at Icalia Labs to create beautiful and maintainable code.

• Onboarding

• Happiness

• Best Practices

• Open source projects

• Testing

• Stack

  • Docker
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • Git
  • Sass
  • Javascript
  • Swift

• Design

We algo provide a bunch of how to articles at the wiki to answer the most frequently asked questions.

Primary guidelines:

• Don't reinvent the wheel reuse code from plugins
• Be consistent
• Be kind with your teammate
• Don't violate any guideline, unless you can convince another teammate of doing so

Language used on Guides:

• "Choose" means that there could be multiple options to choose from
• "Use" is a positive declaration
• "Never" there is no reason why you are breaking the statement
• "Abstain" don't do it unless you have a good reason

Contributing

Everyone is freely to collaborate and submit pull request if needed.

if you have commit access, you should wait not more than a week for the team to give feedback.

Credits

Thank you, contributors!

Guides is maintained by Icalia Labs.

License

Guides is © 2015 Icalia Labs. It is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

The names and logos for Icalia Labs are trademarks of Icalia Labs.