Monkeypatching was common a decade ago. Now it’s more limited to things that try to be language or framework extensions, like ActiveSupport or gems extending Ac

Monkeypatching was common a decade ago. Now it’s more limited to things that try to be language or framework extensions, like ActiveSupport or gems extending ActiveRecord. The whole point of those is to deeply integrate. Metaprogramming like looping over an array to dynamic create methods is far less common. It definitely makes me cranky when I can’t find a method definition. ORMs are one of a few exceptions where the utility justifies it.