From: Avdi Grimm Date: 2008-02-24T09:26:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Marc Heiler wrote: > It is frustrating to try to read a blog that claims monkey patching is > destroying ruby when in actuality the author meant Rails. No, I meant ruby. I have been coding in Ruby for ~7 years, since long before Rails appeared. At work I'm the first to correct people when they make a comment about "Ruby" when they really are talking about a Rails-specific feature. Yes, I used a Rails example. And I suspect that it's true that the phenomenon is more prevalent in in the Rails community than in the wider Ruby community. But for better or worse the majority of Ruby code being written today is being written for Rails, and the Ruby coders of tomorrow are cutting their teeth in the Rails community. Rails cultural problems will, increasingly, be Ruby cultural problems. -- Avdi