There's no practical reason to name it destroy() instead of delete().

Now the client API matches the beanstalks commands without exception.

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A straightforward and (nearly) complete [beanstalkd](http://kr.github.com/beanst
 
 Heavily inspired by [node-beanstalk-client](https://github.com/benlund/node-beanstalk-client), which is a perfectly usable client but somewhat dusty. I wanted more complete support of the beanstalkd protocol in a project written in plain javascript.
 
-All client method names are the same case & spelling as the beanstalk text command, with hyphens replaced by underscore. The single exception is 'delete', which is called as "destroy()".
+All client method names are the same case & spelling as the beanstalk text command, with hyphens replaced by underscore. 
 
 For complete details on the beanstalkd commands, see [its protocol documentation](https://github.com/kr/beanstalkd/blob/master/doc/protocol.txt).
 
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ Reserve a job, waiting the specified number of seconds before timing out. *err*
 
 Inform the server that the client is still processing a job, thus requesting more time to work on it. 
 
-#### destroy/delete
+#### delete
 
-`client.destroy(jobid, function(err) {});`
+`client.delete(jobid, function(err) {});`
 
-Delete the specified job. Responds with null if successful, a string error otherwise. This is the only method without a name identical to the underlying beanstalkd command. The equivalent is `delete`.
+Delete the specified job. Responds with null if successful, a string error otherwise. 
 
 #### release
 
@@ -262,14 +262,14 @@ logdir: "/path/to/log"
 ignoreDefault: true
 ```
 
-You may omit the __logdir__ line to suppress logging to a file.
-
 __beanstalkd__: where to connect  
 __watch__: a list of tubes to watch.  
 __handlers__: a list of handler files to require  
 __logdir__: path to the directory for worker logs  
 __ignoreDefault__: true if this worker should ignore the default tube
 
+You may omit the __logdir__ line to suppress logging to a file.
+
 If the handler paths don't start with `/` the current working directory will be prepended to them before they are required.
 
 ## TODO 

lib/client.js

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ FiveBeansClient.prototype.watch = makeBeanstalkCommand('watch', 'WATCHING');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.ignore = makeBeanstalkCommand('ignore', 'WATCHING');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.reserve = makeBeanstalkCommand('reserve', 'RESERVED');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.reserve_with_timeout = makeBeanstalkCommand('reserve-with-timeout', 'RESERVED');
-FiveBeansClient.prototype.destroy = makeBeanstalkCommand('delete', 'DELETED');
+FiveBeansClient.prototype.delete = makeBeanstalkCommand('delete', 'DELETED');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.release = makeBeanstalkCommand('release', 'RELEASED');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.bury = makeBeanstalkCommand('bury', 'BURIED');
 FiveBeansClient.prototype.touch = makeBeanstalkCommand('touch', 'TOUCHED');

test/test.js

@@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ describe('FiveBeansClient', function()
 				});
 			});
 		});
-		it('#destroy deletes a job', function(done)
+		it('#delete deletes a job', function(done)
 		{
 			// this takes a couple of seconds because of the minumum delay enforced by pause_tube() above
 			this.timeout(5000);
 			consumer.reserve(function(err, jobid, payload)
 			{
-				consumer.destroy(jobid, function(err)
+				consumer.delete(jobid, function(err)
 				{
 					should.not.exist(err);
 					done();