If you don't clearly understand the implications of "Monkeypatching" (also known as "Ninjapatching") then watch this:<p><a href="http://rubymanor.org/videos/unobtrusive_metaprogramming/" rel="nofollow">http://rubymanor.org/videos/unobtrusive_metaprogramming/</a><p>Slides:
<a href="http://seanohalpin.github.com/unobtrusive-metaprogramming/unobtrusive-metaprogramming.html" rel="nofollow">http://seanohalpin.github.com/unobtrusive-metaprogramming/un...</a><p>Its a nice little talk explaining in detail whats going on with all this namespace pollution in Ruby.<p>Here is the direct link to the mp4 btw.:<p><a href="http://rubymanor.org/videos/unobtrusive_metaprogramming/unobtrusive_metaprogramming.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://rubymanor.org/videos/unobtrusive_metaprogramming/unob...</a>