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Poorly chosen Ruby gem names

17 points by angersock 13y ago

angersock 13y 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 https://github.com/icebreaker/girlfriend
the_watcher 13y 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.)
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scottshea 13y ago
Always a little suspicious of 'crack' and 'chronic'. I understand the clean use of the name but the vernacular use of each...
ultimoo 13y 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 13y ago
  I didn't check for profanities, but I quite like "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaasaa-aaaaaaasa-bbbbbbbbbbb". https://pypi.python.org/simple https://pypi.python.org/simple
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yo-mf 13y 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 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 13y ago
dont you talk about nokogiri like that
Mikeb85 13y 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.

17 points by angersock 13y 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 https://github.com/icebreaker/girlfriend

the_watcher 13y 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.)

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scottshea 13y ago

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

ultimoo 13y 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 13y ago
I didn't check for profanities, but I quite like "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaasaa-aaaaaaasa-bbbbbbbbbbb". https://pypi.python.org/simple https://pypi.python.org/simple

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yo-mf 13y 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 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 13y ago

dont you talk about nokogiri like that

Mikeb85 13y 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.