decouples the implementation of the inflector from its test suite

Trying alternative implementations of the inflections
is hard because the suite is coupled with the current
one, setting ivars by hand etc. This commit relies on
initialize_dup, as long as you maintain that one you
can tweak the implementation.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb
index 8cd96fe2d1..13b23d627a 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ module ActiveSupport
         @plurals, @singulars, @uncountables, @humans, @acronyms, @acronym_regex = [], [], [], [], {}, /(?=a)b/
       end
 
+      # Private, for the test suite.
+      def initialize_dup(orig)
+        %w(plurals singulars uncountables humans acronyms acronym_regex).each do |scope|
+          instance_variable_set("@#{scope}", orig.send(scope).dup)
+        end
+      end
+
       # Specifies a new acronym. An acronym must be specified as it will appear in a camelized string.  An underscore
       # string that contains the acronym will retain the acronym when passed to `camelize`, `humanize`, or `titleize`.
       # A camelized string that contains the acronym will maintain the acronym when titleized or humanized, and will