Phenomenal Cosmic Power
Jeff Atwood thinks monkeypatching should frighten you: But if wielding that power doesn’t scare and humble you a little, too, then maybe you should leave the monkeypatching to the really…
Announcing Ninja-Patching!
Sure, monkey patching is great and all. That period of disbelief, followed by increasing exasperation as the victim maintenance programmer discovers that an object is behaving differently than it’s source…
Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 2: Method Injection
Sometimes you have a need for an object method which the class author did not foresee. For instance, in our “previous installment”:http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/03/27/sustainable-development-in-ruby-part-1-good-old-fashioned-inheritance/, we used the following code to accumulate packets…
Sustainable Development in Ruby, Part 1: Good Old-Fashioned Inheritance
The first technique we’ll look at in this series is something so basic it may not even seem worth spelling out. But sometimes old-school techniques are overlooked in the excitement…
Full Disclosure; or, What’s in your toolbox?
The one objection I haven’t heard yet to my monkey patching rant is: you’re a “hypocrite”:[http://utilitybelt.rubyforge.org/svn/lib/utility_belt/convertable_to_file.rb]! Gasp, yes, I have written code that exploits Ruby’s open classes. It even extends…
Followup to “Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby”
My last article was intentionally provocative, and my expectations of response were exceeded. The “ruby-talk thread”:http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/292269?292062-292516 was full of good comments. I’m appreciative of everyone who has taken the time…
Monkeypatching is Destroying Ruby
(The title of this post is intended to be deliberately provocative, as well as being a nod to Steven Colbert’s “The People Destroying America” segments. It’s provocative because I want…