Monkey patch - WikipediaIn computer programming, monkey patching is a technique used to dynamically update the behavior of a piece of code at run-time. It is used to extend or modify the runtime code of dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby, Perl, Python, Groovy, and Lisp without altering the original source code. The term monkey patch seems to have come from an earlier term, guerrilla patch,
