From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2008-02-24T08:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

* Eric Mahurin (eric.mahurin@gmail.com) wrote:

> I believe that "monkey patching" in packages can easily kill
> interoperability with other packages.

Anyone remember the Chainsaw Infanticide Logger Manuever?  ActiveSupport
hacked into logger.rb to remove formatting, which was really nice when
you wanted to use ActiveRecord in something outside Rails.

And let's not mention the scary hacking of require.  Let's just say.. I
don't use Active* in any of my !Rails projects any more.

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