Monkey patching is considered one of the more powerful features of the Ruby programming language. However, by the end of this post I’m hoping to convince you that they should be used sparingly, if at all, because they are brittle, dangerous, and often unnecessary. I’ll also share tips on how to use them as safely as possible in the rare cases where you do need to monkey patch.

Callbacks are methods that are called at specified moments of an object's life. They allow us to easily add new functionalities linked to the object's lifecycle but also can cause some troubles. In this post, we will describe some of the potential issues, that using callbacks can cause.

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ActiveRecord::Store but with type definition. Contribute to byroot/activerecord-typedstore development by creating an account on GitHub.