I think one of the seattle.rb folk blogged about gem names. Sent from my iPhone
On 18/07/2011, at 9:10 PM, Chris Darroch <[email protected]> wrote: > The other reason I love all-lowercase (as well as preferring hyphens over > underscores) is you don't need to use any modifier key to type it out :) > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally opt for having my Github projects match gem names - and so > lowercase with hyphens or underscores is how I roll. Thus, simple_csv and > imp_uri is what I'd opt for. > > Ideally - gem name matches project name matches what goes in the require > call. Granted, I've not always been perfect with that - I prefer hyphens > instead of underscores (reads nicely with my hyphenated Github username in > URLs), but from what I understand that's not best practice unless you're > replacing the hyphen with a slash in your require - a valid example is > net-ssh and net/ssh. > > -- > Pat > > On 18/07/2011, at 8:14 PM, thoran wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Anybody have an opinion about this? > > > > I'm putting up a bunch more code somewhere public, ie. Github, and in > > addition to the usual dilemma of naming a project, I have the additional > > dilemma of case selection, since part of me wants to use mixed case and > > part of me wants to use underscores... > > > > eg. > > > > SimpleCSV cf. simple_csv (current) > > ImpURI (current) cf. impuri > > > > Additionally, even if the project name is underscored, the file names may > > not---I have been using mixed case for filenames as well. > > > > So while I realise that there is something of a convention in Rubyland to > > use underscores, is there any merit in doing it the way I have been doing > > it privately up to now? > > > > > > thoran > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
