While the breakage may have been intentional, it was still ill-advised. Littering the Object class was indeed bad form, but it's been that way for years and ev

While the breakage may have been intentional, it was still ill-advised. Littering the Object class was indeed bad form, but it's been that way for years and everyone's coped with it just fine. Breaking every Rakefile I came across (and they weren't all Rails) to correct the sins of the past doesn't really build confidence in a tool that was at a de facto 1.0 release, even if they were reluctant to call it that.