# Gem naming recommendation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-naming-recommendation/168608>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 22, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-naming-recommendation/168608 "2009-05-22T20:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-naming-recommendation/168608/1 "2009-05-22T20:56:21Z")

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I wrote up my thoughts on naming gems:

[http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2009/05/20/a-project-naming-recommendation](http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2009/05/20/a-project-naming-recommendation)

To summarize, I like underscored\_names so that you can have an  
underscore\_name-with\_some\_plugin and everything will group nicely in  
`gem list`.