Consider renaming?

[nirvdrum]

I'm sure you're aware that that's a very popular Java framework, used frequently for web apps, called Spring. In case this was an oversight, you may want to consider renaming. Certainly name clashes happen across communities all the time, but given the domain overlap, the SEO for this is likely to be really wonky.

[jondkinney]

👍

[jonleighton]

Any suggestions? I spent ages trying to think of a suitable name that wasn't already registered as a rubygem and eventually settled on spring in frustration. I'm not against renaming if there's a good alternative. Otherwise I don't mind spring too much as it is a general dictionary word as well as being the name of a certain java framework.

[jondkinney]

'sonic' seems to be available as a rubygem name. Not sure if you like that. Just shooting from the hip here. 'coil' is also available if you wanted to use a word similar to spring.

[nirvdrum]

I'm not super creative, but "steamengine" or "coalfired" look available and seem like they play on the notion of speeding up or prepping rails. "coalfired" has the added benefit of ending in a "d," indicating it's a daemon.

[jondkinney]

coalfired is pretty cool...

[senny]

one thing we should consider is that the word needs to be fast to type. Of course one could create an alias but in my opinion the default should be handy.

[carhartl]

jumper (the german word "springen" means to jump)

[carhartl]

Nah, there's a gem already.

[rking]

I like 'spring'. AFAIK no harm comes from automatically appending -Java to the end of all Google Search queries.

[nirvdrum]

I didn't even know one could automatically append anything to the end of all Google Search queries. Of course, to be good netizens, you'd have the problem in the inverse direction too, whereby those that care about Java's Spring would need to remove ruby from their terms. Those doing JRuby + Spring will have to fend for themselves :-P

[rking]

Nah, I was joking, just because I never ever care about any Java thing ever.

I think 'spring' is a fine name, though. It's like _sp_in and _sp_ork, but peppier.

[jonleighton]

As @senny notes, I did deliberately pick a short name that would be easy to type.

However that doesn't necessarily mean we can have a longer name but use an abbreviation for the name of the command. (I'd probably call it "springboard" and keep the command as "spring", but there's a "springboard" gem.)

[jacklin10]

how about boost?

[nirvdrum]

I don't want to keep the thread going forever, but people seem to like the "spring" theme. Is there a connection to Rails I'm missing or does it just sound nice?

In any event, working with words in that area, it looks like the following gem names are available: well, vernal, leaps, bound, fount, geyser, & spa.

[nirvdrum]

@jacklin10 I'd be less opposed to boost, but it is the name of a very popular C++ lib. And people do use that library when authoring native extensions. Not as big an overlap, but it'd likely create search issues for them.