From: twifkak@...
Date: 2005-06-23T06:53:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: writing a web chat room--sharing info?

>Also, a completely unrelated question for those who read this far.  I
>notice there seem to be two competing Ruby conventions for naming
>methods.  My copy of the Pickaxe book (first edition) uses 
>mixedCaseNaming.  Other sources (Ruby itself, frex) use 
>underscore_naming.  Is one of these prevalent, or is it whichever you 
>like better?

It's up to you, obviously, but underscore_naming is the popular method naming convention. In my little Ruby Chess program (*still* not done... haven't had time lately), I used underscore_naming for the "production" code, and CamelCase for the unit test code, but that was mostly by accident.

Devin