[bcrescimanno]

FWIW, I'm not a Rails developer; so take my comments as you will.

I don't think the problem people seem to have with Objectify is that they see it as a totally invalid solution to a problem--and I agree with your assessment that many people see this problem as very real.

My own take is that I find it disingenuous to call it an Object-Oriented solution to the problem; it's not. That doesn't make it bad, invalid, or wrong. It rightly raises a few eyebrows to talk about effectively calling namespaced procedures as if it were the pinnacle of Object-oriented design.