“We only hire the best”

How many times have you heard a company claim that they only hire the best? The top of the top. The crème de la…

Provide sharp knives

Ruby includes a lot of sharp knives in its drawer of features. Not by accident, but by design. The most famous is monkey patching: The power to change existing classes and methods.

This power has frequently been derided as simply too much for mere mortal programmers…