At what point did I accuse you of telling people to blindly do something? I accused you of not having good support for the opinions in your article. That is all

At what point did I accuse you of telling people to blindly do something? I accused you of not having good support for the opinions in your article. That is all. I, too, keep finding myself in utterly painful Rails code. Now, if I may use your metaphor: Most of it is due to the blind leading the blind, per se. Programming novices discover some new rails thing, ruby thing ("method_missing" is the worst offender), or even a new programming pattern such as Command, and think it's the most incredible thing they've ever experienced, so they write a blog post about it. Other programming novices read the blog post and then go off on a rampage, overusing that concept and writing all the shitty rails code that I am currently maintaining. There you have the ruby community in a nutshell.