Prevent gem A from overriding methods of unrelated gem B?

Ruby has open classes, which means that anybody can modify any class at any time. There's no way to prevent that. And problems like the one you are describing are exactly the reason why every manual, every tutorial, every course, every FAQ teaches not to do that Over the last 10 years or so, there has been talk of adding selector namespaces to Ruby 2.0, to provide lexically scoped monkey patching.

More recently, matz has set his sights on classboxes It looks very likely that Ruby 2.0 will provide classboxes to limit the scope of monkey patching, but until then, your best bet is to file a bug with the author of that library.

Ruby has open classes, which means that anybody can modify any class at any time. There's no way to prevent that. And problems like the one you are describing are exactly the reason why every manual, every tutorial, every course, every FAQ teaches not to do that.

Over the last 10 years or so, there has been talk of adding selector namespaces to Ruby 2.0, to provide lexically scoped monkey patching. More recently, matz has set his sights on classboxes. It looks very likely that Ruby 2.0 will provide classboxes to limit the scope of monkey patching, but until then, your best bet is to file a bug with the author of that library.

Ruby has open classes, which means that anybody can modify any class at any time. There's no way to prevent that. And problems like the one you are describing are exactly the reason why every manual, every tutorial, every course, every FAQ teaches not to do that.

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