From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T22:46:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:02 PM, James Gray wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
>
>> I usually only do monkey patching in the
>> following cases which have no reuse: top-level script, testing, and  
>> quick hacking.
>
> I think it's the ideal tool for adding compatibility methods.

Along these lines, I read a chapter in Design Patterns in Ruby last  
night that suggests using Ruby's open classes as one possible way to  
implement the Adapter pattern.  The book includes a pretty good  
discussion of the plusses and minus to this approach and makes  
recommendations about when it's probably worth the trade-off.  It's a  
good read.

James Edward Gray II