[ansin]

You're lucky that in those cases you were able to recover in only two days. The time it takes to get back on track can be proportional to the size of the project so imagine if you were dealing with an enterprise system written in and monkey patched in Ruby and you had a similar problem. Depending on your luck, you might get back on track or you might end up having a lot of extra time to work on your resume.

[jshen]

I do work for a very large enterprise. Monkeypatching isn't something that is used liberally, but it's the right thing in certain circumstances.

It's not luck, simply put, it's not hard to fix well written software.