Think Kung-Fu It's not an abbreviation, it's a suffix that's supposed to imply a certain level of kick-assery
http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/suffix-fu.html On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:49 AM, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but exactly what does _fu mean WRT Ruby plugins, > gems and such? > > I have run across this suffix a number of times in Ruby and Rails, > always in connection with some add-on or extension. In the original > context that I encountered '_fu' I inferred that it probably stood for > file upload. However, its widespread use in other contexts evidently > disproves this interpretation. So, does it have a meaning? Does it > derive from the foo in foobar? Does it stand for functional update? Or, > is it an obscure cultural reference to Ruby's Japanese origins? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- // anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of // http://blog.devcaffeine.com/
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