As the creator of Ruby Facets, refinements were high on the todo list. Unfortunately the syntax of refinements led to an ugly problem... I would have to support

As the creator of Ruby Facets, refinements were high on the todo list. Unfortunately the syntax of refinements led to an ugly problem... I would have to support two identical code bases to support both usages (monkey patching and refinement), the only difference being boilerplate code. I could find no way around it. That seemed ludicrous to me, and so I never bothered to add refinement support. Hence, from my perspective, refinements went over like a led balloon.