From: trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-06-12T19:07:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Naming suggestion required



On Jun 12, 3:18 am, Srijayanth Sridhar <srijaya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a program that will fetch me lyrics from any one of a possible
> number of sites. For this I have the following setup:
>
> class AbstractLyricFooBarSomething(this is the name suggestion I require)
>   def init
>     @artist=""
>     @title=""
>     @lyric=""
>   end
>   attr_reader :lyric,:artist,:title
> end
>
> class MetroLyrics < FooBarSomething
>   def init url
>     #do magic
>   end
> end
>
> and so on. There'll be a factory that takes in the search queries and
> returns an appropriate object(s)
>
> What should I call FooBarSomething? I thought of the following and none of
> them seemed to fit the paradigm.
>
> Lyrics
> LyricEngine
> LyricsParser
> Lyricalizer

Generally speaking go with just "Lyrics". But also have you wrapped
everything in a name space? Eg.

  module LyricsLicker

    class Lyrics
      ...
    end

    class MetroLyrics < Lyrics
      ...
    end

  end

T.