From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-11-16T01:32:51+09:00
Subject: Re: web framework for Ruby 1.9


On Nov 15, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Stefan Lang wrote:

> Thanks. At least a basic app works fine in Ruby 1.9,
> installation is simple, only dependency rack and
> colored console output. Neat.
>
> <rant>
> But what the hell is with all these extensions to core
> classes.
>
>    acquire __DIR__/"*.rb"
>
> Thats Kernel#acquire, Kernel#__DIR__, Symbol#/
> and String#/. What's wrong with a simple:
>
>    Ramaze::Utils.acquire_relative "*.rb"
>
> There is nothing modular about putting arbitrary
> utility methods into core classes!
> </rant>
>
> Stefan


perhaps - but there are far less than in any other ruby framework.   
also __DIR__ and the '/' string join i think are planned for a future  
ruby release...

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