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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:

License

Active Support is released under the MIT license:

Support

API documentation is at:

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

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

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Class Public methods

cache_format_version()

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 103
def self.cache_format_version
  Cache.format_version
end

cache_format_version=(value)

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 107
def self.cache_format_version=(value)
  Cache.format_version = value
end

eager_load!()

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 91
def self.eager_load!
  super

  NumberHelper.eager_load!
end

gem_version()

Returns the currently loaded version of Active Support as a Gem::Version.

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/gem_version.rb, line 5
def self.gem_version
  Gem::Version.new VERSION::STRING
end

to_time_preserves_timezone()

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 111
def self.to_time_preserves_timezone
  DateAndTime::Compatibility.preserve_timezone
end

to_time_preserves_timezone=(value)

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 115
def self.to_time_preserves_timezone=(value)
  unless value
    ActiveSupport.deprecator.warn(
      "Support for the pre-Ruby 2.4 behavior of to_time has been deprecated and will be removed in Rails 7.2."
    )
  end

  DateAndTime::Compatibility.preserve_timezone = value
end

utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times()

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 125
def self.utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times
  DateAndTime::Compatibility.utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times
end

utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times=(value)

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support.rb, line 129
def self.utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times=(value)
  DateAndTime::Compatibility.utc_to_local_returns_utc_offset_times = value
end

version()

Returns the currently loaded version of Active Support as a Gem::Version.

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/version.rb, line 7
def self.version
  gem_version
end