The hardest programming problem

[Ptico]

@abinoam looks like we need some new name, any suggestions?

[abinoam]

I'm better at cache invalidation and off-by-one errors 😁

[abinoam]

Let's think about the name. Inflector is how ActiveSupport calls its module. There's an ActiveSupport::Inflector::Inflections module also.

There's no wikipedia page for Inflecto. But there's one for Inflection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection

I've made a selection of the sister wikipedia pages that has no diacritics. Unfortunately, neither portuguese nor ucranian fits this (no diacritics) criteria.

Beegenge https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beegenge Ffurfiant https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffurfiant Fleksie (Verbuigin of fleksie) https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbuiging Fleksija https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleksija_(valodniec%C4%ABba) Fleksio https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleksio Fleksja https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleksja Flessione https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flessione_(linguistica) Flexie https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexie_(taalkunde) Flexio https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexio Flexion https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexion Flexion https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexion Flexion https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexion_(linguistique) Flexiono https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexiono Flexiune https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexiune Flexura https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexura Flexus Taivutus https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taivutus_(kielioppi)

It seems like something beginning with "Flex" would fit well for the gem name.

I've had a look a latin dictionary http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=start&lookup=flex&lang=la

I saw flexo at the latin dict. It says it means "to bend". Flexo reads well in portuguese. And it means BENT or that could be bent in portuguese. BUT... the name is already taken https://rubygems.org/search?query=flexo

Another good option is Flexus, and it's available at rubygems. See https://rubygems.org/search?query=flexu See it https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flexus

So my first suggestion is Flexus!

Flexus.singularize("cars")

[Ptico]

Wow, that's good. I only thought on something general like StringTool

[pabloh]

What about asking the gem ownership from the original author?

[abinoam]

Hi @pabloh,

We have already done so. We've found that the best way was let inflecto where it is because there's tons of libs that depend on that.

This was discussed at https://github.com/mbj/inflecto/issues/10

[abinoam]

@Ptico,

Let's go with Flexus ?

[pabloh]

@abinoam, I see, I thought that maybe releasing a new mayor version could do the trick as well.

[abinoam]

We have discussed this option too. @Ptico , @mbj and I have agreed to fork. There will be less resolution conflict. If you're lib depends on an old lib that depend on inflecto, you're stuck, and will not be able to use inflecto new versions. With the fork, you can use ForkedInflecto version 2 while the gem you're depending on may be using OriginalInflecto 0.0.2.

[pabloh]

Cool.

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[Ptico]

@abinoam Agree