[pretoriusB]

>Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. What a joke.

I don't see any joke. Jokes are of the type "Knock knock, who's there", etc. Using GoF patterns in a language without interfaces or type hinting? Not so much.

Most of the design patterns can be applied in any language, some languages even have inherent support for some of them. Not much to do with types or interfaces (besides them offering extra checks).

Facade, Decorator, Flyweight, Iterator, Proxy, etc... Equally at home in Java, C++, Smalltalk, Python or Ruby...

>On a recent article, another "Ruby expert" (who writes and sells programming books) was shocked by the fact that you can reuse code with inheritance. You should read it.

I guess you are referring to this:

http://clayallsopp.com/posts/the-story-of-pull-request/