# Naming + existing engines **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-existing-engines/92394 "2007-04-19T02:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-existing-engines/92394/1 "2007-04-19T02:33:20Z")
Hey all, is there any list of Engine-based plugins out there already? Any way to find new ones that might be useful? (This would make a great FAQ entry…) Also, I’m currently finishing up my first Engine for public consumption (a sIFR-based rich-font helper), is there a convention for naming Engine-based plugins? Right now I have my plugin named SifrHelper, would SifrEngine be more clear/consistent? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@coldtone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coldtone)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/naming-existing-engines/92394/2 "2007-04-19T10:49:33Z")
Personally, I’d prefer that people _didn’t_ use the SomethingEngine name as it is too strongly associated with the negative views surrounding “engines”. See [http://rails-engines.org/news/2007/01/03/engines-are-dead-long-live-engines/](http://rails-engines.org/news/2007/01/03/engines-are-dead-long-live-engines/) for some of my thoughts behind this. Regarding a list, I’m not sure what value it would provide, beyond making it easier for nay-sayers to tell which plugins they ought to declare as “being evil” 🙂 Plugins can be useful whether or not they take advantage of the engines plugin, and if they’re sufficiently useful then you’ll hear about them through the grapevine anyway 🙂