People are downvoting I think because this is a rather pedantic point to be annoyed by. The tone is one of superiority, rather than pointing out the simple mistake.

Calling a rails function a ruby function is unlikely to invalidate the entirety of the article.

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Perhaps they are downvoting because of your own ignorance? The aforementioned code does depend on ActiveSupport (or similar library), but has absolutely nothing to do with Rails.

Thanks for explaining!

Please be civil regardless of the behavior of other users.

That was more civil than outright calling multiple users ignorant.

Instead, I acknowledged demonstrated ignorance by cheekily posting a valid ruby class definition.

I am the original author, and I assure you I know the difference between Ruby and Rails. This was written over 3 years ago, and while I don't remember all of the details, I don't believe conflating Ruby level code with Rails specific code corrupts the article.

Really it's Ruby with the activesupport gem. Not a huge leap in simply calling it Ruby.

It most certainly is Ruby. It's Ruby with a library (ActiveSupport) added that augments with extra helper methods. When you write Ruby code that adds methods does it suddenly become not Ruby anymore?

It is Ruby in that it requires a Ruby interpreter to execute that line of code. It certainly isn't Javascript or Python. Is the article missing the context that these lines of code are being executed along side the Rails framework? Sure. Is it distracting from the main meaning of the article? I would say not.

That's fair, and definitely warrants skepticism, but was there anything in the article that you found counterfactual? I'm no RoR expert, but I do enjoy looking at how other people solved problems. Is there anything in the article that's counterfactual or that you've experienced causes headaches down the road?

I thought it was a truism that because of all the rampant monkeypatching, many ruby developers don't know how to use ruby without rails?

Surely if it's Rails then it must also, by definition, be Ruby?

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