[rauljara]

> but it's not actually valid ruby.

You are correct that it is invalid for 1.8.6. The code runs just fine in 1.9, though. I take advantage of many things that don't work in 1.8.6, so I'm not particularly concerned with my method chaining breaking compatibility.

I prefer the more-than-2-spaces indentation because, by the shape of the code, it is clearer to me that this is a method chain and not a change in control structure. That is also obvious by actually reading the code, though, so I'm fine putting that down to personal preference.

[jordoh]

Great to know about 1.9 - just looked through the 1.9 changelog and saw it described as "Newlines allowed before ternary colon operator (:) and method call dot operator (.)", so it does seem like they are encouraging this specific formatting style.

I agree that the fully indented code is much easier to visually parse - whether that outweighs the refactoring cost is certainly going to vary depending on the team (in addition to personal preference, as you mention).