Active Support – Utility classes and Ruby extensions from Rails

Active Support is a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions that were found useful for the Rails framework. These additions reside in this package so they can be loaded as needed in Ruby projects outside of Rails.

You can read more about the extensions in the Active Support Core Extensions guide.

Download and installation

The latest version of Active Support can be installed with RubyGems:

$ gem install activesupport

Source code can be downloaded as part of the Rails project on GitHub:

• github.com/rails/rails/tree/main/activesupport

License

Active Support is released under the MIT license:

• opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Support

API documentation is at:

• api.rubyonrails.org

Bug reports for the Ruby on Rails project can be filed here:

• github.com/rails/rails/issues

Feature requests should be discussed on the rails-core mailing list here:

• discuss.rubyonrails.org/c/rubyonrails-core