Rails itself depending on ActiveSupport, that's the problem. If users were to be able to use ActiveSupport or not, depending on their preferences all would be w

Rails itself depending on ActiveSupport, that's the problem. If users were to be able to use ActiveSupport or not, depending on their preferences all would be well. Imho there isn't a good reason for Rails to depend on the monkey patched ActiveSupport parts and it could be factored out into less magicky functions inside Rails.