Avoid Monkey Patching the Ruby Standard Library

[seanbehan]

Hi,

Thanks for this library. There is a lot of great work here. I have a suggestion though.

There is a lot of monkey patching to the standard library (https://github.com/kputnam/stupidedi/tree/master/lib/ruby) and it is causing breakage for the Rails app I'm working on.

Are you open to the idea of moving away from monkey patching if I submit a patch?

[kputnam]

Yes, absolutely. It seems a lot of people have had similar problems. Since I didn't build the library with Rails in mind (and when I did use Rails with stupidedi, it was ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 2.3.x), I haven't encountered the same problems.

I'd like to continue supporting ruby 1.8.6 through 2.0 if possible, and not introduce a dependency on ActiveSupport. Looking forward to your pull request!

[irobayna]

@seanbehan any updates? are you still seeing problems?

[kputnam]

Closing this issue since some Rails compatibility issues have been fixed, even though others may remain. Patches encouraged, but even documentation of any remaining issues would be helpful.

[andrewthad]

On ruby 1.8.7 with rails 2.3.18, I get an error trying to use stupidedi because rails and stupidedi both monkey patch Object with a try method. These are incompatible. Has anyone found a workaround for this? https://github.com/kputnam/stupidedi/blob/master/lib/ruby/try.rb#L17