From: Mike Gold <mike.gold.4433@...>
Date: 2009-01-03T06:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: What does 'Monkey Patching' exactly Mean in Ruby?

Robert Dober wrote:
> 
> Seriously now. Your warning is of course noteworthy, but this is the
> price we have to pay for fixing 1.8 to 1.9 compatibility issues. So
> the concern of yours is actually what I was doing here, deciding to go
> for the 1.9 symbol version and allowing code to run with 1.8 too. 

This begs the question, Has someone made a 1.9 emulation library for 
1.8?  (Emulation to the extent possible, that is.)  The 
symbols-instead-of-strings difference of Object#methods and the like are 
easy to change.  Instead of individuals hand-rolling their own 
workarounds when issues arise, there should be a unified solution: a 
ruby-1.9.gem for ruby 1.8.
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