From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-02-28T23:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby

Yes,

sorry for not mentioning. I just found that many that where developing  
plugins for Rails where patching things that didn't need to be patched  
or hacked in the Framework.
Thanks for the clarification.

Florian Gilcher

On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:36 PM, James Gray wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Florian Gilcher wrote:
>
>> Some time ago, many plugins had some implementation of  
>> String#constantize (better, worse, the same as the Rails version).  
>> This shows one thing:
>> Plugin authors are not aware of everything the language has to offer.
>
> Just to be clear, the Ruby programming "language" does not have a  
> method called String#constantize.  It's provided by the Ruby on  
> Rails "framework."
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>