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 […]