Railties dependency

[ggpasqualino]

Expected behavior vs actual behavior

One of our applications is a non rails application and we use standalone activerecord 4.2.7.1, active_model_serializers 0.8.3 and ruby 2.3.1.

We are looking forward to update active_model_serializers to 0.10.x, but in this version railties is not an optional dependency anymore, and because of that it would mess our initialization.

Is there a reason behind this mandatory dependency? Is there a plan to make it work in a standalone manner as before?

Environment

ActiveModelSerializers Version (commit ref if not on tag): 0.10.2

Output of ruby -e "puts RUBY_DESCRIPTION": ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x86_64-darwin15]

OS Type & Version: OSX 10.11.6

Integrated application and version (e.g., Rails, Grape, etc):
Grape 0.17.0
Activerecord 4.2.7.1