FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot

Posted by joshfng on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:30PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot

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Re:FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot by smt88 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:53PM (#15523319)

My reaction to this is basically "nothing to see here".

Libraries get renamed all the time. Whether the authors thought it was problematic or not, they decided to rename it so that there's no question. Who cares?

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Re:FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot by ainar-g on Saturday October 21, 2017 @03:42PM (#15523269)

https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 - Here is the original issue. And yes, it's about sexism, even though the name was a reference to a factory pattern and a song.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921#issueco... - here is a comment I would like to highlight.

>There is real, honest, awful sexism in tech, but this is not it.

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Re:FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot by albemuth on Saturday October 21, 2017 @04:29PM (#15523469)

Laudable action. Among all the noise about "political correctness gone mad" it's encouraging when small actions like these are taken.

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