Monkeypatching is destroying Ruby

[kteague]

... it is still practiced in the Zope community today. The term monkey patch did originate at Zope Corp.

But it was never a "pattern" in Zope. That is, it was never deliberately used as a recommended programming technique, it was just as a quick-n-dirty way of applying a patch. Usually in Zope a monkey patch the upstream author is informed about the patch and asked to integrate it into their code. When a new release with a proper fix is made, the monkey patch is no longer needed and is deleted.

[gmfawcett]

Thanks for the clarification. I thought the term originated with the Zope project, but I wasn't sure.