From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T02:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: name correspondence



On Jul 5, 6:25 am, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thomas Sawyer wrote:
> >     Library: foo-bar
> >     Directory: lib/foo/bar
> >     Namespace: Foo::Bar
>
> >     Library: foo_bar
> >     Directory: lib/foo_bar
> >     Namespace: FooBar
>
> > That being the case I think Ruby needs to include methods to make it
> > easy to translate between these. In ActiveSupport these methods are
> > String#pathize and String#methodize. I would think there would also be
> > something like String#modulize.
>
> Perhaps you're thinking of camelize and underscore in
> lib/active_support/inflector.rb

Oh? My bad, I thought it had #pathize  and #methodize too.

>     # Examples:
>     #   "active_record".camelize                # => "ActiveRecord"
>     #   "active_record".camelize(:lower)        # => "activeRecord"
>     #   "active_record/errors".camelize         # =>
> "ActiveRecord::Errors"
>     #   "active_record/errors".camelize(:lower) # =>
> "activeRecord::Errors"
>
>     # Examples:
>     #   "ActiveRecord".underscore         # => "active_record"
>     #   "ActiveRecord::Errors".underscore # => active_record/errors
>
> Each of these methods is only a few lines. I've seen them copy-pasted in
> several projects...

In Facets those are #camelcase and #snakecase, but it also has the
other methods -- No problem getting access to such methods. Just think
Ruby needs to support something along these lines out the box if the
correspondence should be considered a standard.