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Re:Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails by wavesplash on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:32AM (#11815179)
Sadly, you can't just remove the gem anymore. At least not if you want to use ActionCable. ActionCable generators only generate Coffeescript.
Re:Drop jQuery as a dependency from Rails by mieko on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:14PM (#11815613)
ActionCable generators can now generate either JS or Coffeescript. This is relatively recent, but the direction is clearly toward decoupling.

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/63ac6255ba3553b529f4b2...