From f44d85a030f6e22421b26f0d5a0c869fae3efe5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josiah Ivey <josiah.ivey@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:16:45 -0500
Subject: Grammar tweaks to the guides guidelines

---
 .../source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile    | 19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

(limited to 'railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile')

diff --git a/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile b/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
index 6576758856..8e55780dca 100644
--- a/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
+++ b/railties/guides/source/ruby_on_rails_guides_guidelines.textile
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Guides are written in "Textile":http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/. There's c
 
 h3. Prologue
 
-Each guide should start with motivational text at the top. That's the little introduction in the blue area. The prologue should tell the readers what's the guide about, and what will they learn. See for example the "Routing Guide":routing.html.
+Each guide should start with motivational text at the top (that's the little introduction in the blue area.) The prologue should tell the reader what the guide is about, and what they will learn. See for example the "Routing Guide":routing.html.
 
 h3. Titles
-
+ 
 The title of every guide uses +h2+, guide sections use +h3+, subsections +h4+, etc.
 
 Capitalize all words except for internal articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and forms of the verb to be:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ h5. Middleware Stack is an Array
 h5. When are Objects Saved?
 </plain>
 
-Use same typography as in regular text:
+Use the same typography as in regular text:
 
 <plain>
 h6. The +:content_type+ Option
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ Those guidelines apply also to guides.
 
 h3. HTML Generation
 
-To generate all the guides just cd into the +railties+ directory and execute
+To generate all the guides, just +cd+ into the +railties+ directory and execute:
 
 <plain>
 bundle exec rake generate_guides
 </plain>
 
-You'll need the gems erubis, i18n, and RedCloth.
+(You may need to run +bundle install+ first to install the required gems.)
 
 To process +my_guide.textile+ and nothing else use the +ONLY+ environment variable:
 
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ To process +my_guide.textile+ and nothing else use the +ONLY+ environment variab
 bundle exec rake generate_guides ONLY=my_guide
 </plain>
 
-Although by default guides that have not been modified are not processed, so +ONLY+ is rarely needed in practice.
+By default, guides that have not been modified are not processed, so +ONLY+ is rarely needed in practice.
 
 To force process of all the guides, pass +ALL=1+.
 
-It is also recommended that you work with +WARNINGS=1+, this detects duplicate IDs and warns about broken internal links.
+It is also recommended that you work with +WARNINGS=1+. This detects duplicate IDs and warns about broken internal links.
 
-If you want to generate guides in languages other than English, you can keep them in a separate directory under +source+ (eg. <tt>source/es</tt>) and use the +LANGUAGE+ environment variable.
+If you want to generate guides in languages other than English, you can keep them in a separate directory under +source+ (eg. <tt>source/es</tt>) and use the +LANGUAGE+ environment variable:
 
 <plain>
 rake generate_guides LANGUAGE=es
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ rake generate_guides LANGUAGE=es
 
 h3. HTML Validation
 
-Please do validate the generated HTML with
+Please validate the generated HTML with:
 
 <plain>
 rake validate_guides
@@ -80,4 +80,5 @@ Particularly, titles get an ID generated from their content and this often leads
 
 h3. Changelog
 
+* March 31, 2011: grammar tweaks by "Josiah Ivey":http://twitter.com/josiahivey
 * October 5, 2010: ported from the docrails wiki and revised by "Xavier Noria":credits.html#fxn
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