diff --git a/crates/ark/src/methods.rs b/crates/ark/src/methods.rs
index d8ed1cd93..02c3135d2 100644
--- a/crates/ark/src/methods.rs
+++ b/crates/ark/src/methods.rs
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ impl ArkGenerics {
 
     pub fn register_method(&self, class: &str, method: RObject) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         let generic_name: &str = self.into();
-        RFunction::new("", ".ark.register_ark_method")
+        RFunction::new("", ".ark.register_method")
             .add(RObject::try_from(generic_name)?)
             .add(RObject::try_from(class)?)
             .add(method)
diff --git a/crates/ark/src/modules/positron/methods.R b/crates/ark/src/modules/positron/methods.R
index 97ac892e8..f64c0735b 100644
--- a/crates/ark/src/modules/positron/methods.R
+++ b/crates/ark/src/modules/positron/methods.R
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ lockEnvironment(ark_methods_table, TRUE)
 #' @param class Class name as a character
 #' @param method A method to be registered. Should be a call object.
 #' @export
-.ark.register_ark_method <- function(generic, class, method) {
+.ark.register_method <- function(generic, class, method) {
     stopifnot(
         is_string(generic),
         generic %in% names(ark_methods_table),
diff --git a/crates/ark/src/variables/variable.rs b/crates/ark/src/variables/variable.rs
index a70968256..facaefa04 100644
--- a/crates/ark/src/variables/variable.rs
+++ b/crates/ark/src/variables/variable.rs
@@ -1377,20 +1377,20 @@ mod tests {
             // Register the display value method
             harp::parse_eval_global(
                 r#"
-                .ark.register_ark_method("ark_positron_variable_display_value", "foo", function(x, width) {
+                .ark.register_method("ark_positron_variable_display_value", "foo", function(x, width) {
                     # We return a large string and make sure it gets truncated.
                     paste0(rep("a", length.out = 2*width), collapse="")
                 })
 
-                .ark.register_ark_method("ark_positron_variable_display_type", "foo", function(x, include_length) {
+                .ark.register_method("ark_positron_variable_display_type", "foo", function(x, include_length) {
                     paste0("foo (", length(x), ")")
                 })
 
-                .ark.register_ark_method("ark_positron_variable_has_children", "foo", function(x) {
+                .ark.register_method("ark_positron_variable_has_children", "foo", function(x) {
                     FALSE
                 })
 
-                .ark.register_ark_method("ark_positron_variable_kind", "foo", function(x) {
+                .ark.register_method("ark_positron_variable_kind", "foo", function(x) {
                     "other"
                 })