[QA] better page object explanation, colon confusion

[S Page]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> `:id => 'an_id'` and `id: "firstHeading"` are Ruby hashes. The former is
> the Ruby 1.8 syntax (hash rocket), the latter is Ruby 1.9+ syntax.
>

Thanks, I mentioned in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing/Writing_tests#Page_Objects

More information:
>
> https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide#no-mixed-hash-syntaces
>

Interesting, Ruby seems like Perl with more than one way to do it but is
better with evolving recommended practices.

RuboCop is instructed to allow both, at the moment.
>

Please can we not do that, do any of our browser tests even support Ruby
1.8? I don't want to keep stylistic alternatives in my brain when a machine
can enforce a well-documented style guide.

Thanks,
--
=S Page  Features engineer
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