Yeah, filenames all lower case. Hyphens for extensions (e.g. dm-mongodb-adapter), underscores for separating words in a name (e.g. delayed_job).
Also, you can treat a capitalised acronym as a word, so consider imp_uri (although I realise you may prefer that to read as one word). Cheers, Chris On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
