> Ruby is undisciplined, monkey-patching lunatics
I think this applies more to Rails. I've found the Ruby community outside of Rails to be quite sane people.
I think this applies more to Rails. I've found the Ruby community outside of Rails to be quite sane people.
The number of people who use Ruby who have never even touched Rails is probably quite low - who wouldn't want to try out the hot new thing? - but heaps of Ruby users are not primarily there to use Rails.
Funny thing is, I generally prefer Rails users' code. Rails enforces such a strong MVC structure that one can't help but write decently organised code, IMO, and the habit sticks. People who came at Ruby from scripting tend to just write "whatever works" and you know how that turns out.