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Pachinko is a Ruby monkeypatch manager tool attempting to control the unpredictable and difficult-to-troubleshoot regressions possible when monkeypatches run amok and unchecked in a medium to large Ruby codebase.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2013-10-15 · latest 2025-10-22

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  1. https://github.com/pmarreck/pachinko Note: Have not touched in > 13 years, so there's that lol At the time I was working on a million+-line Ruby codebase at Desk.com. We were in a situation where people were monkeypatching out bugs in…
  2. …you haven't discovered yet (shameless self-plug: I actually wrote a gem to help manage that stuff: https://github.com/pmarreck/pachinko ), and your unit test ends up taking, like, 30 seconds to just load your stack of dependencies ...…
  3. …complexifying your codebase to the point of pain? I wrote a gem to help manage that... https://github.com/pmarreck/pachinko
    comment by lectrick · 2013-10-15 · in Introducing Rubinius X