h2. Active Support Overview

Active Support is the Rails component responsible for providing Ruby language extensions, utilities, and other transversal stuff. It offers a richer bottom-line at the language level, targeted both at the development of Rails applications, and at the development of Rails itself.

By referring to this guide you will learn:

* The extensions to the Ruby core modules and classes provided by Rails.
* The rest of fundamental libraries available in Rails.

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h3. Extensions to +Kernel+

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h3. Extensions to +Object+

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h3. Extensions to +Module+

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h3. Extensions to +Class+

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h3. Extensions to +NilClass+

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h3. Extensions to +TrueClass+

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h3. Extensions to +FalseClass+

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h3. Extensions to +Symbol+

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h3. Extensions to +String+

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h3. Extensions to +Numeric+

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h3. Extensions to +Integer+

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h3. Extensions to +Float+

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h3. Extensions to +BigDecimal+

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h3. Extensions to +Enumerable+

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h3. Extensions to +Array+

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h3. Extensions to +Hash+

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h3. Extensions to +Range+

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h3. Extensions to +Proc+

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h3. Extensions to +Date+

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h3. Extensions to +DateTime+

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h3. Extensions to +Time+

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h3. Extensions to +Process+

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h3. Extensions to +Pathname+

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h3. Extensions to +File+

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h3. Extensions to +Exception+

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h3. Extensions to +NameError+

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h3. Extensions to +LoadError+

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h3. Extensions to +CGI+

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h3. Extensions to +Benchmark+

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h3. Changelog

"Lighthouse ticket":https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/16213/tickets/67

* April 18, 2009: Initial version by "Xavier Noria":credits.html#fxn