MonkeyPatch

*WARNING: This is alpha code, the API is not stable yet.*

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Do you monkeys, patch ? If so, use this library, you won't regret it.

Why use a library when you could do all this by hand ? For two reasons:

1. We provide the mechanism to protect from patch collision
2. By including this gem as dependency, you declare your project is
   monkeypatching.

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Authors

zimbatm <zimbatm@oree.ch>

Getting started

Example usage:

:include:example/patch_usage.rb

Look at the MonkeyPatch module to get an idea of the API.

Once you have a patch object, look at the MonkeyPatch::Patch definition to know how to use it.

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Related projects

• github.com/coderrr/monkey_shield/ : provides sorts of namespaces to avoid patch collision

Ideas

• method re-definition or module/class extension could be detected, especially when using Gems. The load-path is not the same between the original definition and the new-one.

• load-path as namespace

TODO

• Rework the documentation

• Add reason string

• Add ‘monkeywarn’ that warns when a monkeypatch is applied