If I am removing the departure gem from my gemfile, do i have to remove reference to 'disable_departure' and 'uses_departure!' ?

[rob]

If I am removing the departure gem from my gemfile, do i have to remove reference to 'disable_departure' and 'uses_departure!' ?

[Ben Langfeld]

If you're no longer going to include Departure in your application, you won't be able to use any of its implementation.

[rob]

so past migrations with reference to those functions will not cause issues?

[Ben Langfeld]

so past migrations with reference to those functions will not cause issues?

As long as you don't execute them, no.