activesupport requirement in rvideo

[cies]

hi all,

activesupport is a giant PITA, it breaks json horribly. i make heavy
use of json for a merb based media dump web service (forked from
panda)..

anyway i get a lot this error:
active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb:34:in `to_json'
on this site i see more complaints on this (scroll to the bottom):
http://github.com/candlerb/couchtiny

my question: how heavily is rvideo depending on activesupport. over
the years i've come to dislike activesupport as, in my opinion, it
tries to do too much.

does anyone know how to restrict the use of active support for rvideo
only?
or can i help by making rvideo free from activesupport? (i'll fork and
patch rvideo, it would be a great help is someone could tell me why
rvideo is using this lib in the first place)


thanks!
_cies.

p.s.: our fork of panda:
http://github.com/opendream/mutant_panda