> Why would the majority of gems have anything at all to do with Rails or need it to work as advertised? That's what your often hear from "Rails skeptics". Acc

> Why would the majority of gems have anything at all to do with Rails or need it to work as advertised? That's what your often hear from "Rails skeptics". According to them people don't even know what is Rails and what is Ruby, and that because of this, gems either have Active Support as explicit dependency, or use Active Support extensions without knowing it and then don't work outside of Rails.