From: Nick Klauer <klauer@...>
Date: 2011-09-13T11:52:50+09:00
Subject: Can monkey patching be discovered when you require a library?

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Is it possible to know whether a method, class, or instance was overridden
by another when you require 'said_gem' in (i.e. monkeypatched)?  I'm
thinking something that would let gem users know if a gem is going to
override core methods or attrs?

I was thinking that alot of the time, we try out a gem hoping it will suit
our needs, and ideally, you would probably want to look at the source code
of the gem before using it in production.    However, if you were able to
run some test or metric on a gem to find out what (if any) methods, classes,
instances, attributes, etc., were being overwritten, and where they were
being overwritten at, it might give you a better idea of potential problems
down the road.


-Nick Klauer

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