Re: Confusing dependencies

Frederick Cheung
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:47:24 -0000

On 26 Jul 2008, at 11:24, Michael Koziarski wrote:

>
>> Now I wondered if these depenencies are intended (to keep complexety
>> as low as possible), and -- if not --, whether there''re plans
for
>> rather autonomous frameworks.
>
> We certainly expect you to be able to turn off the frameworks where
> that makes sense.  If it''s as simple as a few missing requires for
> things like erb then we can definitely take patches to fix that.
>
> Making them completely autonomous isn''t a high priority goal for
most
> people, but there''s no reason to make it impossible to turn AR off
for
> example.

This does work (or at least used to), I''ve got a 2.0.2 app around
somewhere that doesn''t use ActiveRecord (and it was as simple as using
config.frameworks)

Fred