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Loading plugins with Rubygems
Let’s say you have a Rubygem named “blorf”. You want to enable other developers to write plugins in the forms of Rubygems of their own. For the end user, loading the plugins should be as simple as writing: require ‘blorf’ … Continue reading
Followup to “Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby”
My last article was intentionally provocative, and my expectations of response were exceeded. The “ruby-talk thread”:http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/292269?292062-292516 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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged monkeypatching, patterns, plugins, practices, rails, ruby
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged activerecord, plugins, Projects, rails, ruby, testing
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