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| author | Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net> | 2010-06-05 20:33:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net> | 2010-06-05 22:05:58 -0700 |
| commit | fd1a5041362f5e65b813b7938d477143bd82de40 (patch) | |
| tree | 5365eede7fe25b23d2a3f37beb21c11ddad281b0 /activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb | |
| parent | 35ae42be4f9e23ae954e4705276b460998cb401b (diff) | |
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ActiveSupport::Dependencies.constantize shortcut for caching named constant lookups
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb index 6a243fe982..cd7a42ed2b 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb @@ -47,4 +47,15 @@ class String d[5] += d.pop ::DateTime.civil(*d) end + + # +constantize+ tries to find a declared constant with the name specified + # in the string. It raises a NameError when the name is not in CamelCase + # or is not initialized. + # + # Examples + # "Module".constantize # => Module + # "Class".constantize # => Class + def constantize + ActiveSupport::Inflector.constantize(self) + end end |