I think the hashes instead of objects paradigm contributed to my frustration. I ended up turning parts of the hashes into objects and parts into parameters. Y

I think the hashes instead of objects paradigm contributed to my frustration. I ended up turning parts of the hashes into objects and parts into parameters. You and your sibling post provide some decent guidelines and approaches to default arguments. My experience with Ruby has lead me to believe that it's an awesome language, but a language which I'd be very careful about with whom I collaborated.