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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.textile b/railties/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.textile index e22ffa4c04..50e86e05a8 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/api_documentation_guidelines.textile @@ -33,12 +33,16 @@ Spell names correctly: Arel, Test::Unit, RSpec, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, ERB. Wh Use the article "an" for "SQL", as in "an SQL statement". Also "an SQLite database". +h3. English + +Please use American English (_color_, _center_, _modularize_, etc.). See "a list of American and British English spelling differences here":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences. + h3. Example Code Choose meaningful examples that depict and cover the basics as well as interesting points or gotchas. -Use two spaces to indent chunks of code.—that is two spaces with respect to the left margin; the examples -themselves should use "Rails code conventions":http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/source-style. +Use two spaces to indent chunks of code--that is two spaces with respect to the left margin; the examples +themselves should use "Rails coding conventions":contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html#follow-the-coding-conventions. Short docs do not need an explicit "Examples" label to introduce snippets, they just follow paragraphs: |