Refactor `Gemfile` and `.gemspec` to remove `rails` dependency?

[nimmolo]

Does this gem depend on all of Rails? As far as I can tell it only uses railties. I know it does depend on webpacker OR importmap also.

Our app skips importing significant parts of rails for efficiency because we don't use them, namely

activestorage
actioncable 
actionmailbox
actiontext 

and I believe this is not an uncommon practice. requestjs-rails would be our only dependency requiring all of rails.

An alternative is to just hand-code what this gem does in our js requests. But if the Gemfile/gemspec can be rewritten to only require railties or any other gems that requestjs-rails depends on, i'd be happy to submit a PR.

[marcelolx]

Yeah it does not depend on all of Rails, feel free to send a PR with the changes needed!

[nimmolo]

Comin' up...
do you prefer the PR to come from my repo, or a new branch here?

[marcelolx]

fork -> make changes -> open pr against this repository (I don't think you will able to create a branch here if you don't have the permissions to do so)

[marcelolx]

I will push a release by the EOW. Meanwhile, pin to the main branch in your Gemfile :rais

[nimmolo]

Thank you much!

[nimmolo]

Hi @marcelolx - do you think you'll push a release soon?

[marcelolx]

@nimmolo https://github.com/rails/requestjs-rails/releases/tag/v0.0.11, thanks for the ping!