---
title: uno o dos
teaser: A passionate opinion about quotes.
tags: web,rails
author: Jared Carroll
published_on: 2008-04-01
---

Now in Ruby, strings can be created using single or double quotes.  The only
difference is that you can interpolate variables in double quoted strings.  I
constantly see the following confusing code:

```ruby
user.name = "name"

link_to "home", root_path
```

Here we're using double quoted strings, but there's no interpolation.  As soon
as I see double quotes, I think there's going to be some interpolation.  Using
double quotes without interpolation is flat out wrong.  The above code is more
correct, and much less confusing using single quotes.

```ruby
user.name = 'name'

link_to 'home', root_path
```

This may not seem like much, but it makes a huge difference when followed
consistently.