Custom Acronym for UI breaks other gems/engines

[brandonjyuhas]

Solidus has a custom inflection acronym for "Ui" (changing it to "UI"). This is correct in how UI is used. However, this means that other engines which use the default inflection ("Ui") are broken by default.

This means that to use another gem (such as Maglev), you need to monkeypatch their gem to rename the module.

Defining the inflection of a commonly used acronym within in apps codebase seems entirely outside of the scope of what Solidus provides, and I should be able to use Solidus without it changing the names of constants coming from other gems.

Solidus Version:
4.4.0

To Reproduce

Define a module using the default inflection for ui, "Ui". Alternatively, use a gem (such as Maglev). Note that it cannot be included in any class.

Current behavior
Constants including the default inflection for ui cannot be loaded.

Expected behavior
The default inflection for 'ui' is respected.

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[fthobe]

@elia will have to tell you if this needs to be or if it was only a quality of life change 5e719db

[fthobe]

@rainerdema was this a quality of life change or something that was inevitable?

[elia]

This is a pesky issue, but it's a sensible request.
I wonder if there's a way to inflect UI for a specific namespace, otherwise makes total sense to just go with the default inflection.

[fthobe]

@elia Would it break anything significant to rework that change?

The commit says:

Add an inflection to consider "UI" as an acronym
The DRY.rb container needs to be connected manually to Rails
inflections otherwise it will use its own and render "UI" as "Ui".

Co-Authored-By: Rainer Dema <rainer.dema@gmail.com>

but I am having a hard time to understand the full impact here.

[elia]

@fthobe
@brandonjyuhas
would any of you be open to look into https://guides.rubyonrails.org/autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html#customizing-inflections and send a PR fixing it?

I think we can and should strive to keep UI for solidus without disrupting the outside world.

[fthobe]

@elia and just like that Elia brought ravage to another community unprepared for @fthobe 💃

[fthobe]

@jhawthorn @amatsuda do you think it makes sense to touch this? We are unsure if we should align with rails or rails or rails should align with us here.