I dont know about rails, but for django it is not possible to standardise modules/plugins etc until 1.0 comes out and the 'best practises' are defined. This is

I dont know about rails, but for django it is not possible to standardise modules/plugins etc until 1.0 comes out and the 'best practises' are defined. This is a design decision as until 1.0 comes out there will be backward incompatible changes. So there is not alternative to 'monkey-patching'