On Nov 4, 1:49 pm, "Giles Bowkett" <gil... / gmail.com> wrote:
> > Note, the project is called "Roll", but that doesn't always sound
> > right in a sentence, so I call it 'Rolls' too, whenever that fits
> > better.
>
> Just a note - the Rails team was kind of surprised to discover that
> "rails" was drug slang for lines of cocaine. Rolls is also drug slang,
> at least on the East Coast, for Ecstasy.
>
> Obviously this whole R, L, S combination is cursed in terms of open
> source project names that turn out to be accidental drug references.
> That's why I'm doing away with that entire set of phonemes for my
> naming scheme, and releasing a project called Acid instead. No R, no
> L, no S. I'm good.

Hmm... maybe I have a subconscious tendency I was unaware of...

  http://blow.rubyforge.org

;)

Anyhow. I realize it's Sunday, and a lot of you are candy flipping
tonight, but I'd prefer to get the conversation back. Hey, no worries,
but if you don't mind...

Something I wanted to demonstrate that I forgot to put in my original
post:

  irb(main):001:0> Library.list
  => ["box", "nitro", "roll", "icli", "mint", "og", "glue",
      "tmail", "english", "webrite", "blow", "xact", "raw",
      "ruby", "ratch", "facets"]

T.