Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice

Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice « Katz Got Your Tongue?:

wycats, Posted November 30, 2010, 3:56 am In my mind, in Ruby < 2.0, there's a category of library which is "provide a number of useful core extensions." The three major ones are ActiveSupport, Extlib and Facets. In general, applications need to choose one, but not more of these libraries to avoid conflicts. These libraries are designed to be used in applications, and things get a bit murky when they are used as dependencies of other standalone libraries. For instance, using DataMapper with Rails was a problem for a while because of conflicts between Extlib and ActiveSupport. They eventually removed the dependency on Extlib, but it definitely illustrates the larger systemic issue that refinements are trying to solve. On the other hand, Right::AWS is not a library that provides core extensions, nor does it depend on such a library (if it did, it would end up in the same pla...

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