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by JohnBooty 1030 days ago 

    For me, the Ruby community's comfort with monkey patching was a big turn off
If it helps, the Ruby community really soured on monkeypatching in general quite a while back. You don't see it much these days and every decent book or guide warns against it.

It was definitely a crazier place 10+ years ago in the early Rails days.
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fuzztester 1030 days ago
>It was definitely a crazier place 10+ years ago in the early Rails days.

Yeah! It sure was.

I was around, was an early Ruby and Rails adopter, and worked on a few commercial Rails projects at that time.

That's how I know about the monkey patching issues. Faced them in real life.

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JohnBooty 1029 days ago
I certainly wouldn't blame a person for experiencing those crazier days and thinking the community didn't have the greatest technical vision.

I played around with Rails and Ruby when Rails first blew up. But I didn't start doing it fulltime professionally until 2014. By the time it seemed to me that the community was maturing. I think it's in a good place now.

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