Why is rails a dependency? about graphiql-rails HOT 4 CLOSED

At the time, a Rails engine was the best technique I knew. These days, I'd love to explore a rack-based alternative, see rmosolgo/graphql-ruby#1051

As a Rails engine, this project uses Rails structure, see https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphiql-rails/tree/master/app

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(dang it, wrong button!)

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Furthermore, requiring rails itself is a bad practice, as it requires installation of often unnecessary dependencies (like actioncable, etc) for all cases. For instance, in rails 5, the API mode doesn't install those features to new apps either, but depending on this gem would bring those in.

Addressing this can be fairly simple as just replacing s.add_runtime_dependency "rails" with s.add_runtime_dependency "railties" in the gemspec gets you most of the way.

I'll push up a PR to address that.

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That'd be great!

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