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I agree with you, Spring is already well known in Java circles (and .NET to some extent).

And that's why it doesn't matter at all in the Ruby / Rails community ;)

And a nightmare for people in both the Java and Rails community when seeking jobs.

Still Google/search kind of flattens the namespace a bit. Now you're going to get lots and lots of Java Spring framework hits on any Ruby Spring google searches.

Agreed. I'm a big Ruby fan, but some of the community naming choices are just annoying. In addition to spring: rack, sequel, devise, unicorn, faraday... I could keep going.

Spring rails reloader gem. Solved.

Exactly. Except they could have used Springloader or something as a shorthand for it (rather than Spring) and it wouldn't have been as much of an issue.

It reminds me of when Wordpress gave one of their milestone releases the code-name Django. They actually changed it to "Rheinhardt" after the initial release because of the confusion it was causing.

In this case it's even worse. Giving a component of a web framework the same name as a different, in a sense competing, framework is just plain silly.