bbatsov/ruby-style-guide — pull request #119 by dillonkearns (2012-09-28 00:55:31+00:00)
Title: Suggest Removing "Prefer single-quoted string" section

While this may make the interpreter do a little less work, using single-quotes as the default can make the job of refactoring more difficult, and could make code with a lot of strings (like should blocks in tests) inconsistent. I suggest either leaving it up to the developer's judgement whether to use single- or double-quotes, OR, if we do want to have a consistent standard for our codebase, using double quotes as the default.