Absolutely not on the RoR encouraging NIH side - there's a huge ecosystem of libraries to handle most of the day to day stuff, and because of the way Ruby works

Absolutely not on the RoR encouraging NIH side - there's a huge ecosystem of libraries to handle most of the day to day stuff, and because of the way Ruby works its really easy to stub out things like 3rd party APIs for test suites. If someone on my team tried to argue that they should implement the API client themselves rather than using the provider's implementation without a really good reason I'd shut them down.