Michael Herold

That's my bad. I missed a line when I implemented the namespace tweak. I actually have that fix in my master branch but forgot to put in a pull request.

I started working on this and noticed a wrinkle in the implementation. `FileFinder` [uses `Pathname#ascend`](https://github.com/standardrb/standard/blob/3f865570b9f59ba3226848d2dc8a9e2a204c94f1/lib/standard/file_finder.rb#L6) to look for the configuration file in ascending folder structure. Since I'm attempting to make...

Hi @kaylareopelle! I double checked when I submitted and [this](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby/blob/8a16f1fc18dd0b4365ecc58e3517caee5e274a71/exporter/otlp-metrics/lib/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/metrics_exporter.rb#L10) is where the require happens. I haven't vetted when or where it is used, though; perhaps it's not used anywhere...

Hey Nick! `#deep_merge` performs a `#deep_dup` on non-Hashes. I believe ActiveRecord models are `#duplicable?` which means they have `#dup` called on them. That exhibits the behavior that you're seeing. Hashie...