Ruby is so powerful but simplicity is the best if other people are going to read and maintain your code. Amen. Keep it simple for a large shared Ruby appl

Ruby is so powerful but simplicity is the best if other people are going to read and maintain your code. Amen. Keep it simple for a large shared Ruby application, such as a Rails app. More advanced Ruby (writing your own operators/iterators/whatever, metaprogramming, extending the language itself, whatever) is best reserved for Ruby frameworks, not applications.