Remove activesupport from explicit dependencies

[fatkodima]

activerecord already depends on activesupport.
Moreover, when trying to upgrade the gem without --conservative option, it tries to also upgrade activesupport dependencies, which is not needed.

[mvz]

The reason there's a direct dependency is that the code directly accesses the ActiveSupport namespace. That's mostly a question of esthetics, but activerecord does the same since it depends on both activemodel and activesupport, whereas activemodel also depends on activesupport.

Moreover, when trying to upgrade the gem without --conservative option, it tries to also upgrade activesupport dependencies, which is not needed.

I've been trying this out and I can see this happening (in my case, it updates minitest via activesupport), but removing the direct dependency on activesupport makes no difference. Do you have some demonstration that this change will actually have the effect you're looking for?

[fatkodima]

Don't know how to locally demonstrate it without releasing a new version with this change. I was pretty sure this is the case.

[pas256]

Would this have any impact on enabling my project to upgrade to Rails 8?

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/........
Resolving dependencies...
Could not find compatible versions

Because rails >= 8.0.0 depends on activesupport = 8.0.0
  and acts_as_paranoid >= 0.10.2 depends on activesupport >= 6.1, < 8,
  rails >= 8.0.0 is incompatible with acts_as_paranoid >= 0.10.2.
So, because Gemfile depends on acts_as_paranoid ~> 0.10.2
  and Gemfile depends on rails ~> 8.0,
  version solving has failed.

[mvz]

@pas256 no, the activerecord dependency also won't allow Rails 8.

[rajneeshsharma9]

@mvz when are we planning to support rails 8? acts_as_paranoid is the only gem stopping me from upgrading to Rails 8

[mvz]

I'll probably make a release this weekend.

[mvz]

@rajneeshsharma9 Version 0.10.3 supporting Rails 8.0 has now been released.