Hi everyone,
I am happy to announce that Rails 5.0.5.rc2 and 5.1.3.rc2 have been
released.
If no regressions are found, expect the final release on Monday, July 31,
2017.
If you find one, please open an [issue on
GitHub](https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/new)
and mention me (@github_user})
I just found this thread after noticing the same dependency today and
looking for a way to potentially remove this. I don't quite see a
dependency on minitest in the 'standard library' (by which I assume you
mean the Rails gem itself).
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/rails.gemspec