removes unused method Class#remove_class

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
index 80a920e4d6..74140eb978 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
@@ -2,35 +2,4 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/object/extending'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/module/introspection'
 
 class Class #:nodoc:
-  # Removes the classes in +klasses+ from their parent module.
-  #
-  # Ordinary classes belong to some module via a constant. This method computes
-  # that constant name from the class name and removes it from the module it
-  # belongs to.
-  #
-  #   Object.remove_class(Integer) # => [Integer]
-  #   Integer                      # => NameError: uninitialized constant Integer
-  #
-  # Take into account that in general the class object could be still stored
-  # somewhere else.
-  #
-  #   i = Integer                  # => Integer
-  #   Object.remove_class(Integer) # => [Integer]
-  #   Integer                      # => NameError: uninitialized constant Integer
-  #   i.subclasses                 # => ["Bignum", "Fixnum"]
-  #   Fixnum.superclass            # => Integer
-  def remove_class(*klasses)
-    klasses.flatten.each do |klass|
-      # Skip this class if there is nothing bound to this name
-      next unless defined?(klass.name)
-      
-      basename = klass.to_s.split("::").last
-      parent = klass.parent
-      
-      # Skip this class if it does not match the current one bound to this name
-      next unless parent.const_defined?(basename) && klass = parent.const_get(basename)
-
-      parent.instance_eval { remove_const basename } unless parent == klass
-    end
-  end
 end