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Followup to “Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby”

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 […]

Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

(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 […]

Announcing NullDB 0.0.1

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 […]