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authorNicholas Seckar <nseckar@gmail.com>2006-08-05 22:23:58 +0000
committerNicholas Seckar <nseckar@gmail.com>2006-08-05 22:23:58 +0000
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Add extention to obtain the missing constant from NameError instances
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@4679 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb
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+# Add a +missing_name+ method to NameError instances.
+class NameError < StandardError
+
+ # Add a method to obtain the missing name from a NameError.
+ def missing_name
+ $1 if /((::)?([A-Z]\w*)(::[A-Z]\w*)*)$/ =~ message
+ end
+
+ # Was this exception raised because the given name was missing?
+ def missing_name?(name)
+ missing_name == name.to_s
+ end
+
+end \ No newline at end of file