FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
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Re: FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
#2https://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.
Re: FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
#3My 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?
Re: FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
#4Laudable action. Among all the noise about "political correctness gone mad" it's encouraging when small actions like these are taken.