为什么叫黄瓜和水豚?

Why are Cucumber and Capybara called that?

有谁知道为什么选择这些名字给水豚和黄瓜? 还是他们只是随机挑选的?

Cucumber was written by Aslak Hellesøy and named by his fiancee. 他向她要了一个 "catchy, non-geeky sounding name" 来代替它的临时名称 "Stories"。

Capybara 这个名字似乎是对 "webrat" 的模仿,a similar library 的名字早于 Capybara。 (真正的水豚是一种原产于南美洲的大型啮齿动物,不是真正的 "rat",而是相关的。)