Thank you for the feedback. Thank you especially to Carlos for pointing out that I could just include ActiveSupport without ActionView.
I could have left out the personal anecdote--Ryan makes a good point that the real issue is that nokogiri should not be a dependency when it is needed by only a small subset of functionality, that often is not used at all. So, rails-core team, are you guys on board? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.