I was just reading through http://scottraymond.net/articles/ 
2006/02/28/rails-1.1, which gives an overview of the next Rails release.

I noticed a number of extensions to the core ruby classes:

	Object#to_json
	Enumerable#group_by
	Array#in_groups_of
	Hash#to_xml
	Array#to_xml
	Object#extended_by

and so on.  Earlier versions of Rails also have lots of extensions to  
the core libraries.

Is anyone else concerned that the rapid evolution and adoption of  
Rails is de facto
forking the core and standard libraries of Ruby?

I don't like the idea of having to know if I'm looking at Ruby on  
Rails or Ruby Classic.


Gary Wright