Gem not compatible with Watir-Webdriver

[Johnesco]

I've been creating scripts that included both Watir-Webdriver and your gem and until recently they have been working well together.

Recently, I found that I was not able to require "numbers_and_words" without causing a failure of Watir-Webdriver from launching a browser. I have not been able to point what was updated to cause this.

I've put all details that I can recreate on Stack Overflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27673549/why-is-numbers-and-words-gem-causing-this-error

The overlap seems to be in gems that they have in common. However I'm unable to diagnose myself if the issues is exactly where I think it is.

[eLod]

This is likely a problem in ActiveSupport:

barnabas:~ pota$ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.0p0 (2013-12-25 revision 44422) [x86_64-darwin12.0]
barnabas:~ pota$ irb
irb(main):003:0> require 'active_support/core_ext/object'; require 'active_support/version'; ActiveSupport.version
=> #<Gem::Version "4.2.0">
irb(main):004:0> {foo: :bar}.to_json
NameError: uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::JSON
    from /Users/pota/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.2.0/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/json.rb:37:in `to_json_with_active_support_encoder'
    from (irb):4
    from /Users/pota/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/bin/irb:11:in `<main>'

The quick fix is to require active_support/json which solves the problem. However older versions of activesupport also seem to work this way, so either it's a bug in activesupport (not requiring active_support/json from active_support/core_ext/object/json -- or active_support/core_ext/object/to_json in older versions) or it's the intended way of working in which case i guess numbers_and_words should fix it (either requiring active_support/json or only requiring specific object core extensions we need and not all, see http://github.com/kslazarev/numbers_and_words/blob/master/lib/numbers_and_words.rb#L5). @kslazarev thoughts?

[dblock]

Numbers_and_words isn't using any JSON-related functionality, so I think the proposal to require something smaller than active_support/core_ext/object is likely the right way to go. Try a PR?

[dblock]

Bump, what do we want to do with this?

[Mackaber]

I'm having the same issue using Grape 0.19.2