From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2010-10-05T00:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: gems should *not be case sensitive.. or should they?

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
> but if it's possible to publish 2 gems with same name using different casings..

yes, unfortunately,...

g=`gem list --remote`.each_line.map{|x| x.split.first};
gd=g.map(&:downcase);
gd.get_duplicates.size
#=> 121
gd.get_duplicates
#=> ["abundance", "actionpool", "actiontimer", "activesambaldap",
"adkron-data_bank", "alltom-glapp", "ambethia-smtp-tls",
"andre-geokit", "apptower-ubistrano", "arbarlow-rubycurl",
"assaf-uuid", "autonzb", "babelfish", "baccigalupi-aqua", "bangkok",
"bcaccinolo-mailchimp_api", "bluecloth", "bougyman-freeswitcher",
"box2d", "bterlson-reddit", "buildr", "cedric-shorty", "commandline",
"console", "creationix-milk", "crudtree", "cyrillizer",
"dcrec1-rhyme", "dnsruby", "dtaus", "dtr", "elliottcable-jello",
"elliottcable-nfoiled", "elliottcable-refinery",
"elliottcable-stringray", "entangledstate-isbn", "etch", "fakeweb",
"farsifu", "fivepointssolutions-serve", "flashatron", "freeswitcher",
"funit", "gdata", "gooby", "hebruby", "informer", "io-reactor",
"jalalidate", "jamierumbelow-gistify", "jarrett-quarto", "jazzez",
"jbe-termite", "jgre-monkeyspecdoc", "jruby-openssl", "kanocc",
"laowaihua", "linguistics", "listrophy-suprails", "luikore-bk201",
"luikore-cici", "maca-scruby", "markaby", "martin",
"matthewrudy-aspicious", "matthewrudy-rudeq", "mdaines-feasible",
"memoize", "meskyanichi-timer", "mp4info", "nabaztag", "nephila",
"nilsimsa", "njacobeus-tokboxer", "oasis", "onion", "onlooker",
"opal", "pablo", "parseargs", "piggy", "polar", "popen4",
"pvande-differ", "rack", "radar-lookup", "rafaelgaspar-sexyprotocol",
"redgreen", "reposh", "roadrunner", "rogerleite-gedit-snippets-tool",
"ron", "roxml", "rsruby", "rtask", "ruby-hl7", "rvm", "sac",
"selenium-client", "soleone-highrise", "spy-vs-spy", "sqs", "stencil",
"stompmq", "sysvipc", "text", "tommi-cmd_tweet", "tracker", "usage",
"valuable", "vimmate", "visionmedia-growl", "visionmedia-san",
"watersofoblivion-burn", "watersofoblivion-footpedal",
"willbailey-flareshow", "writeexcel", "x12", "xmlcanonicalizer",
"xray", "zliby"]
g.grep /actiontime/i
#=> ["actiontimer", "ActionTimer"]
g.grep /actionpool/i
#=> ["ActionPool", "actionpool"]
g.grep /^popen4/i
#=> ["popen4", "POpen4"]

and some weirdos..

g.grep /^-/i
#=> ["-"]
g.grep /^1234/i
#=> ["1234567890_"]

...

best regards -botp