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.
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:
Active Support is released under the MIT license:
API documentation is at:
Bug reports can be filed for the Ruby on Rails project here:
Feature requests should be discussed on the rails-core mailing list here: