Ruby Gem Naming: The Art of Delightful Obscurity | stevengharms.com

The Ruby community was always marked by an especially playful character. I haven’t written Ruby in over 5 years, but I still remember that feeling of play. It always surfaced in the oddest moments where someone would go off on a tangent and you could see the humorous stinger coming from a mile off and then you’d think: “Wait, they’re going exactly were I thought they might be going with this.” A notable moment was when David Brady noticed the irrepressible urge of Rubyists to misdirect so that they could land a joke once you resolved the cryptic crossword-like clue of the naming algorithm:.