Introduce minimalistic package for ActiveSupport.

To simplify using of ActiveSupport in 3rd party libraries,
a simple way to require only minimum of commonly used extensions
(multibyte, inflections, array and hash extensions, #blank?, and a few
others) is needed. For exactly this reason some out-of-Rails-space
libraries adopted Extlib, originally from DataMapper.

To keep it 2067% backwards compatible, and still available
to everyone even in 2.x releases, active_support/minimalistic.rb
was added.

Use it like this:

gem 'active_support', '>=2.3'
require 'active_support/minimalistic'

instead of

require 'activesupport'

Right now this package with RubyGems uses about 10 megs of RAM
(10.01 or so). It can be further slimmed down though, once we simplify
multibyte implementation that right now uses advanced accessors
from Module extensions.

To compare RAM usage with previous ActiveSupport versions and Extlib,
at the time of writing, see http://gist.github.com/40401.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb
index a4caa83b74..8f8f0968fd 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
 
           unless '1.8.7 and later'.respond_to?(:chars)
             def chars
-              ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn('String#chars has been deprecated in favor of String#mb_chars.', caller)
+              # FIXME:
+              # ActiveSupport::Deprecation refers to RAILS_ENV
+              # and is a show stopper for 3rd party applications
+              # that only want ActiveSupport
+              ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn('String#chars has been deprecated in favor of String#mb_chars.', caller) if defined?(ActiveSupport::Deprecation)
               mb_chars
             end
           end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/minimalistic.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/minimalistic.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ecb5de9eaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/minimalistic.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)
+
+require "core_ext/blank"
+# whole object.rb pulls up rare used introspection extensions
+require "core_ext/object/metaclass"
+require 'core_ext/array'
+require 'core_ext/hash'
+require 'core_ext/module/attribute_accessors'
+require 'multibyte'
+require 'core_ext/string/multibyte'
+require 'core_ext/string/inflections'
+
+class String
+  include ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Multibyte
+end