= Kitchen Sink
Kitchen Sink is a collection of hopefully-useful methods and tweaks, little things that I think should be in Ruby Standard Library but currently aren't.
My experience has been that just about every Ruby programmer I have worked with has independently created some of these tweaks. As a result, I can claim no great personal originality in this gem other than finally collecting them all together.
Because it is likely that you or some of the libraries you are using already have one or more of these tweaks, every tweak in Kitchen Sink first checks to see if the tweak has already been defined, and politely refuses to overwrite your existing tweaks.
Kitchen Sink is a collection of hopefully-useful methods and tweaks, little things that I think should be in Ruby Standard Library but currently aren't.
My experience has been that just about every Ruby programmer I have worked with has independently created some of these tweaks. As a result, I can claim no great personal originality in this gem other than finally collecting them all together.
Because it is likely that you or some of the libraries you are using already have one or more of these tweaks, every tweak in Kitchen Sink first checks to see if the tweak has already been defined, and politely refuses to overwrite your existing tweaks.