Do you still need activesupport as a gem dependency? It breaks stuff...

I see this ticket:

http://sod.lighthouseapp.com/pro...

And this commit:

http://github.com/mislav/will_pa...

I'm wondering if we can remove it safely now, because it causes us problems.

Here is our specific problem:

• We explicitly activate all gem versions before rails initializes (via config/preinitializer.rb).

• We sometimes activate an older version of rails than is installed on the box (e.g. app is still using rails 2.1.0 but 2.1.1 is installed as well)

• If mislav-will_paginate is activated before rails (which happens if you go in alphabetical order), the highest version of activesupport (2.1.1) will be activated. This causes the subsequent activation of rails 2.1.1 to fail, because rails 2.1.0 tries to activate activesupport 2.1.0, which fails because you can only activate one version of a gem at a time.

Since will_paginate can only operate in the context of Rails, it doesn't seem to make sense for it to explicitly define a sub-dependency of rails as one of its dependencies.

So, unless there is a reason to keep this dependency, can we remove it?

Thanks, -- Chad