It can be used in applications too. If you look the generated
application.rb if you remove one of the components they only require the
railties
On May 27, 2014 9:56 PM, "deeeki" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In activesupport/lib/active_support/railtie.rb:
>
> > @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
> > -require "active_support"
>
> @rafaelfranca <https://github.com/rafaelfranca> Before refactoring, I
> found that railties/lib/rails.rb only does require
> 'active_support/railtie' and it also requires active_support above.
> That's why I removed.
> How is active_support/railtie supposed to be used?
>
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