My (somewhat dated) experience says that Ruby is all the way worse than Python on this. In part due to a culture that encouraged monkeypatching. With the resul

My (somewhat dated) experience says that Ruby is all the way worse than Python on this. In part due to a culture that encouraged monkeypatching. With the result that what behavior you get depends on who last monkeypatched it. So a dependency 3 deep that loads the module you expected to load last suddenly causes the monkeypatch you were depending on to disappear...