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Excessive meta programming.

• eric-hu 15y ago
  could you expand on that? What would an excessive meta-programmer be thinking or doing differently?
  • damoncali 15y ago
    Not a rampant problem. I've just seen a few times where developers have been clever just because ruby lets them. Makes things hard to read for no good reason.
  • bricestacey 15y ago
    Here is a good discussion about overriding include to act like extend. This craziness is all over the place. http://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/12/better-ruby-idioms/ http://yehudakatz.com/2009/11/12/better-ruby-idioms/
• danneu 15y ago
  Rails implements a lots of metaprogramming, but what's an example of Rails programmers adding onto that? Only example I've come across is when Rails is being used to interface with another system/API.