Poorly chosen Ruby gem names

http://unethicalblogger.com/2011/11/13/ten-poorly-chosen-gem-names.html

by angersock • 13 years ago

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angersock• 13 years ago

To be fair, the Trollop gem is probably my favorite CLI library.

Somewhat creepy example linked off of article:

https://github.com/icebreaker/girlfriend

the_watcher• 13 years ago

I'll defend analdiffist on the grounds of it being a pretty clear Arrested Development reference, while remaining accurate (A professional twice over: an analyst and a diffist.)

scottshea• 13 years ago

Always a little suspicious of 'crack' and 'chronic'. I understand the clean use of the name but the vernacular use of each...

ultimoo• 13 years ago

This is likely a side effect of the fact that there is no "peer-review" process in the form of a pull request or maintainers etc. to publish a gem to rubygems.org. Can such names can also be observed with PyPI etc. which have a similar low-barrier publishing mechanism? This is different from other package distribution channels like your operating system's default package/portage manager. Homebrew I believe accepts pull requests, Ubuntu solves this problem by introducing an additional step where the end user has to manually add the ppa repository to apt before being able to install packages.

akx• 13 years ago

I didn't check for profanities, but I quite like "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaasaa-aaaaaaasa-bbbbbbbbbbb".

https://pypi.python.org/simple

yo-mf• 13 years ago

The guy has an issue with the name Nokogiri?

Anyway, not to be "that guy", but this same article was posted over a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577590 and the post itself is over two years old. Would it be too much to ask folks to search before posting?

jgmmo• 13 years ago

dont you talk about nokogiri like that

Mikeb85• 13 years ago

What's the deal with Japanese names for gems, considering Ruby was created by a Japanese programmer, and for most of its existence was most popular in Japan? And considering what Nokogiri does, 'Saw' or a tool name is pretty appropriate.

Poorly chosen Ruby gem names

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