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FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot (github.com)
4 points by joshfng 3156 days ago
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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?

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.

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