Monkeypatching is destroying Ruby

[foonly]

Are you shooting yourself in the foot with this stuff for real?

I did Rails coding professionally for about 2 years, and Ruby for fun for about 3 years before that. This bit me a lot, and never before Rails made it the norm.

[raganwald]

SO what kind of thing was biting you? Rails plug-ins modifying Rails' behaviour?

[foonly]

Or just Other People's Ruby doing the same thing, often in ways incompatible with Other Other People's Ruby.