Forum: Rails-core (closed, excessive spam) Confusing dependencies

Hello,

I'm currently working on a plugin. To set the (minimal) testing
environment for the plugin up I invoke Rails::Initializer (instead of
loading config/environment.rb). As the plugin just depends on AR I
tried to disable all apparently unneeded frameworks. However, it's not
possible to disable more than :action_mailer and :active_resource.
Loading the database config file e. g. requires ERB which again is
part of ActionView. ActionController can't be disabled as ActionView
depends on it in turn (AV requires html-parser 'html/document', which
isn't found unless AC is loaded).

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.

Cheers
Peter

> 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.

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Cheers

Koz

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

> 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

I just tried it with 2.1.0

uncommented the line;
config.frameworks -=
[ :active_record, :active_resource, :action_mailer ]

and nothing works unfortunately.

I imagine it does work sometimes,
but given there's no test on the functionality...

On Jul 31, 10:47 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>

http://gist.github.com/3594

On Aug 1, 9:30 am, "matthewrudyjac...@gmail.com"

Thats because you have active record mentioned in one of the 
initializers:

  from 
/Users/matthew/code/nodb/config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb:5

Just comment it out / remove it from there.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM, matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com
<matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > >> Now I wondered if these depenencies are intended (to keep complexety
>>
>> > 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
> >
>



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Cheers

Koz

good point,
thanks.

So it does work!
BOOM.