Loading plugins with Rubygems
Let’s say you have a Rubygem named “blorf”. You want to enable other developers to write plugins in the forms of Rubygems of their own. For the end user, loading…
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…
Announcing NullDB 0.0.1
I spent the afternoon coding an alternative to the ARBS and UnitRecord database-elimination plugins. Definitely scratching a personal itch, as I had a project where I wanted to use one…