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I pretty strongly disagree with the idea that Ruby encourages those bad habits. But Rails? Specifically, ActiveSupport? Yeah, totally. But, effectively, Rails i

I pretty strongly disagree with the idea that Ruby encourages those bad habits. But Rails? Specifically, ActiveSupport? Yeah, totally. But, effectively, Rails is building a context-specific DSL for web apps that happens to be leaking methods into your code. This is much, much more a Rails problem than it is a Ruby one. My standard web stack is grape, grape-swagger, grape-entity, and Sequel (with some handy libraries like Ougai kicking around) and I don't run into any problems like that.

nilved 9y ago
ActiveSupport does that because Ruby encourages it.
- eropple 9y ago
  Ruby allows it. Ruby allows a lot of things. So does C++. So does JavaScript. So does Java. Deciding to do it is a question of taste.
  - nilved 9y ago
    I think it goes further than that unless you don't consider the documentation and standard library sufficiently encouraging.