Please weigh in to RubyGems developers!

Ruby Apps Redcloth
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Eric evidently isn’t willing to consider making gem names case-
insensitive when you install, so I’ve asked for there to be a prompt
if you type the gem name in the wrong case. If you’ve ever typed gem
install redcloth and got “ERROR: could not find redcloth locally or
in a repository,” please go to this URL, log in, and say, “yes, great
idea!”

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=19525&group_id=126&atid=575

Hopefully with some community support we can get them to fix this
problem.

I think it will only make the problem worse to switch to a
lowercase “redcloth” at this point. Then people might think they’re
getting the latest version, but they really get an old one just
because they used the wrong case.

Jason

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Jason G. schrieb:

Eric evidently isn’t willing to consider making gem names case-
insensitive when you install
why? did he explain his decision/refusal?

[murphy]

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He didn’t say. See: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=16937&group_id=126&atid=575

Eric closed the ticket, saying:

Date: 2008-02-20 14:42
Sender: Eric H.

Use gem list to get the correct capitalization.

Then someone re-opened the ticket, plus I have a ticket suggesting
not case-insensitivity, but rather a prompt when you use the wrong
case: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=19525&group_id=126&atid=575

I’ve tried digging into RubyGems source to make a patch, but I
couldn’t figure out how to use their mock UI testing interface to
create a unit test.