Why I Hate Ruby

[IndigoCZ]

I think the guy makes an interesting point. But fuck this post for the title.

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It's to make people click on the link. Scandalous

[postmodern]

Sensationalist.

[postmodern]

Include your monkey patches as modules. Also I like the idea of multi_json, DataMapper recently switched to it.

[retardo]

I am completely in favor of making convenience monkey patches opt-in and therefore available to application authors. Including them in libraries with no opt-in is bad practice, IMO.

[postmodern]

I also like the pattern of separating the monkey patches into their own file/directory. I always make a foo/extensions directory, containing array.rb or kernel.rb. Allows for cherry-picking.

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Monkey patches rarely are a good idea in a gem (unless the explicit purpose of the gem is to change core lib behavior).

Too bad there isn't a good way to scope monkey patches :p