[ruby-core:70900] [Ruby trunk - Misc #11548] [Open] FileUtils#remove_tailing_slash is a poor method name

Issue #11548 has been reported by Ryan Hosford.

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Misc #11548: FileUtils#remove_tailing_slash is a poor method name
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11548

* Author: Ryan Hosford
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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One would expect this method to be called `remove_trailing_slash`

I asked around on IRC and the consensus is this is probably an unfortunate typo that's survived too long.

Tailing and Trailing mean similar things, but I think most would expect "trailing" to be the clear choice here.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.3/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/FileUtils.html#method-i-remove_tailing_slash



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