From: Johan Nilsson <johan.nilsson@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T17:51:02+09:00
Subject: File naming conventions

Hi,

having grokked Ruby for a while now I wonder whether there are any specific 
recommendations regarding file/directory naming. IF so, where's the place to 
look?

I've been using C++ for quite a while, and what made sense to me was to aim 
for one class/file and name the file after the class - e.g. MyClass => 
MyClass.h, MyClass.cpp.

If the class were defined inside a namespace (roughly comparable to modules 
in this specific instance), I'd ususally create a subdirectory reflecting 
that, e.g.:

--- MyNs/MyClass.h --
....
namespace MyNs {

class MyClass {};

} // namespace MyNs
....
---------------------

To refer to this header from other files I use e.g. "#include 
<MyNs/MyClass.h>". This seems pretty consistent with e.g. "require 
'test/unit'".

But - back again to my real question (and now a bit more specific): why all 
this lower-case only in the files/directorys(that map to module names) 
within Ruby? As an example: compare Test::Unit::TestCase to 
test/unit/testcase.rb - any specific reason for this?


Regards // Johan