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That's a neat idea! I might limit it to 0-arity vs. N-arity suggestions, to not create odd behavior for other situations (assuming Data is, as I expect, just Ruby and doesn't have any compiler special-sauce to it).

I guess it would then also provide a better message for `attr_reader` vs `attr_accessor` usage, too, right?

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I submitted a pull request to did_you_mean for a simpler solution: only suggest methods ending with = if the user tried to call one, and vice versa.

That's not always the right behaviour either.

`#set_table_name` was replaced by `#table_name=` in ActiveRecord, so (especially around the time this changed when you might have projects in older and newer versions) it would be a likely mistake to make. I'm reasonably certain this is not the only case where a setter existed without `=` as part of the name where later library updates changed it to one with `=` (or the other way around).

That's a good point, but according to my tests DYM already won't suggest `table_name=` for `set_table_name`. The spellchecker is based on Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein distances, not substring matches. An alternative would be just to not suggest "foo=" for "foo" and vice versa.

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