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Announcing Ninja-Patching!

Started by avdi · 10 months ago

Sure, monkey patching is great and all. That period of disbelief, followed by increasing exasperation as the victim maintenance programmer discovers that an object is behaving differently than it’s source code says it should, is satisfying. But sooner or later he or she wises ... Continue reading »

10 comments

Reg Braithwaite
1 year ago

I suppose this was meant as a joke, but I intend to use "Ninja-Patching" from now on instead of that other phrase, the one actually invented by Python programmers."

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she
1 year ago

"I suppose this was meant as a joke"

LOOK AT THE DATE MAN!!!!!!!!!!

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she
1 year ago

But i must agree somewhat :-)

I think whenever someone mentions monkey patching from now on, I will refer to ninja patching. Sounds a lot better.

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nicholas a. evans
1 year ago

"I intend to use “Ninja-Patching” from now on instead of that other phrase"

I personally favor "slapmethoding", which is entry #3 in _why's Complete List Of Substitute Names For The Maneuver We Now Know To Be Monkeypatching.

http://hackety.org/2007/08/10/myCompleteListOfS...

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Poromenos
1 year ago

Being a Python developer, I have no strong feelings either way on this post, but I like your writing style!

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Paul Batum
1 year ago

class ChosenOne
Thread.new do
while(Module.constants.grep(/Ninja/).empty?)
sleep(1)
end
Ninja.class_eval do
private
def attack!
# Ahah! The ninja is helpless!
end
end
end
end

My apologies, I'm still new to Ruby so I'm sure this could be nicer. I couldn't figure out a decent way to determine if a class is defined (it must be staring me right in the face), and the thread was the only way I could get it to work regardless of the require ordering.

Needless to say I enjoyed this post!

One other thing: I lost my comment the first time I submitted because I was prompted about OpenID. I am not a fan of that behaviour :/

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avdi
1 year ago

Paul: sorry about the lost comment. I'm increasingly not a fan of WordPress, period.

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Soleone
1 year ago

That is really cool!

I had to laugh out loud while trying it out and understanding it!

"Objects, silence! Beware of the Ninja!"

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