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1.method(:day).source_location <= your friend was wrong shrug

Look, I'm not a big fan of all of Rails' monkeypatching. That's why I don't use Rails anymore, I use other Ruby frameworks like Bridgetown, Roda, and Hanami. But there's definitely a way to dive into the "magic" and find out what's going on.

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Ah, that's good to know! Yeah, he was wrong about a lot of stuff, so that adds up. He ended up in jail for a stint.

whoa

Quite the plot twist there

Woah, this thread escalated quickly.

you monkeypatch over core methods like that they put you in jail right away no trial, no nothing. Metaprogrammers... we have a special jail for metaprogrammers. You're global variabling? Right to jail. You're using for loops instead of iterators? To jail right away. You're type checking by class... Jail. Abusing eval? Jail. You're using global variables like a drunken sailor? You right to Jail. You overuse class variables Jail. You underuse class variables believe it or not jail. You use too many tests also Jail, overuse underuse. You use define method and you could have created the methods explicitly? Believe it or not, jail right away. We have the best code monkeys in the world because of jail.

how does this work if i import two different gems that both monkeypatch the same classes?

Even if you can see the source, it still seems difficult to understand where the monkeypatch came from if you have transitive dependencies and whatnot.

The last one wins

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