- actionmailer
- actionpack
- activeresource
- activesupport
I have a basic scaffolded CRUD app that uses ActiveRecord to connect to a SQLite database and I have frozen my Rails gems.
Which of these gems could I delete without affecting my app?
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ActionMailer can go if you'll never use e-mail, and ActiveResource is just a more REST-ful API to Rails than ActiveRecord is. You'll need the rest:
- ActionPack handles the split of web requests to controllers and views
- ActiveSupport puts a lot of mixins and syntactic sugar from Ruby into Rails
But more importantly, why do you need to delete the gems? It's not like they take up a lot of space.
John Feminella
2009-06-02 21:41:20
That's a pretty interesting question. I would make a new one asking that question specifically. Good luck!
John Feminella
2009-06-02 21:49:42
Actually, ActiveSupport doesn't make "life easier". Its a requirement. It's basically the library that bundles all Ruby extensions that are used in Rails.
Skade
2009-06-02 23:51:20
ActiveResource is not a replacement for ActiveRecord! ActiveResource allows you to consume RESful web services using an ActiveRecord like API.
John Topley
2009-06-03 10:00:35
@Skade, @John: Yes, I didn't phrase that very well. But my point was that ARes isn't strictly required (you don't have to use a RESTful API). I noted that ActiveSupport is one of the required pieces, since you need those extensions in Rails.
John Feminella
2009-06-03 12:36:03
Perhaps he doesn't want to actually delete the gems, just exclude them from environment.rb so they're not loaded...?
John Topley
2009-06-03 15:43:08