Whatever dude, you're not being fair. Particularly with claims like: "If the community is indeed walking away from monkeypatching.... that doesn't prove I'm w

Whatever dude, you're not being fair. Particularly with claims like: "If the community is indeed walking away from monkeypatching.... that doesn't prove I'm wrong, it proves I am and was right about the dangers involved. I don't feel inclined to give the community much credit for coming around to the realization that unfettered monkeypatching is a bad idea two years later than I did." So "the community" (whoever they are) doesn't move as fast as you do. What have you done to change it? There are people who are out there trying to make things better. Not simply painting everyone with the same brush and then writing them off. Fine, you've got a problem with the way people use Monkey patching. You should convince people of the dangers of using it. You're not succeeding. Monkey patching itself isn't the problem. The problem is not writing portable code. ============================ Incidentally i find it extraordinarily frustrating that there are clearly a lot of people who down mod anyone who says anything positive about Ruby (since i can watch my points increase shortly after posting them, only to fall back to basically 1 or zero as time progresses, regardless of the content of my posts).