On Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:06:46 AM UTC-8, Robb Shecter wrote: > > I have custom matchers for testing web services such as checking the SSL > certificate installation. I'm not quite sure how to best name this: > > > - rspec-webservice? > - rspec-matchers-webservice? > - rspec_webservice? > - rspec-dogweather? (My github name) > > ... or something else? The naming > guidelines<http://guides.rubygems.org/name-your-gem/> don't > quite seem to address this case: > > rspec-webservice seems correct because I am "adding functionality to > another gem". But this will correspond to the gem residing in > RSpec::Webservice, and I'm not the maintainer of RSpec, and so a naming > conflict can arise. > > rspec-matchers-webservice is a possibility because that seems to be how > the RSpec library itself is > organized<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Frubydoc.info%2Fgems%2Frspec-expectations%2FRSpec%2FMatchers&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHZHoo9lH9hO7XCcE75aO0c_-MzgA> > . > > rspec_webservice is a safe option, because it will simply be in its own > root namespace (RSpecWebservice), and conflicts will be ruled out because > the rubygems system will ensure that this name cannot be used for another > gem. > > rspec-dogweather because it doesn't greedily use a generic term? >
If your library is meant to only provide matchers (and not other functionality), I'd recommend `rspec-webservice_matchers` (with the `RSpec::WebserviceMatchers` namespace). This is simliar to the recently extacted https://github.com/rspec/rspec-collection_matchers gem. HTH, Myron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rspec" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/9dd2f79a-d761-4504-930d-916ce3a6a5f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
