activesupport
ActiveSupport is a component of the Ruby on Rails framework that provides a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions for Ruby. It offers time and date helpers, safe defaults, and a set of modules designed to augment Ruby’s core classes without replacing them. In Rails, ActiveSupport is loaded by default, but it can also be used independently by requiring specific components or the whole library.
Key features include core extensions that enhance Ruby classes and add convenient helpers for time calculations
ActiveSupport also provides several modules central to Rails’ ergonomics. ActiveSupport::Inflector offers pluralization, singularization, camelization, underscore, and
Additional components include ActiveSupport::Cache for a common caching interface and multiple backends, and various time zone