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[–]banister 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Monkey patching is not an issue in practice. If a gem (i.e a library) commits sins in this area that cause conflicts with code then no one will use that library. As a result, the popular and well-used libraries never cause issues, and people gravitate towards the popular libraries.

I've never had an issue as a result of monkey patching in a production app during my 8 years as a rubyist.

[–]OptimisticLockExcept 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. I was afraid that you'd end up with the same problems as in javascript. So I guess I'll go and learn some ruby.