The one objection I haven’t heard yet to my monkey patching rant is: you’re a hypocrite!
Gasp, yes, I have written code that exploits Ruby’s open classes. It even extends Object, the core-est of the core! And then shamelessly contributed it to a publicly available gem!
As anyone who read past the title of my […]
My last article was intentionally provocative, and my expectations of response were exceeded. The ruby-talk thread was full of good comments. I’m appreciative of everyone who has taken the time to respond either there or here on the blog.
I thought I’d write a quick followup and just respond to a few of the points […]
(The title of this post is intended to be deliberately provocative, as well as being a nod to Steven Colbert’s “The People Destroying America” segments. It’s provocative because I want to get people talking about this issue. I don’t actually think that monkey patching is “destroying” Ruby, but I do think the proliferation of the […]
I spent the afternoon coding an alternative to the ARBS and UnitRecord database-elimination plugins. Definitely scratching a personal itch, as I had a project where I wanted to use one of the above-mentioned libraries but i just couldn’t seem to get them to work. I’m releasing it in hopes others will find it useful too.
Here’s […]