adding deprecation noticies to deprecated class cache methods

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
index 97e20bdaf4..4abeb74c45 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
         def get
           Reference.get @name
         end
+        deprecate :get
       end
 
       def new(name)
@@ -565,6 +566,11 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
       end
       deprecate :new
 
+      def store(name)
+        self[name] = name
+        self
+      end
+
       def clear!
         @store.clear
       end
@@ -575,7 +581,14 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
     def ref(name)
       Reference.new(name)
     end
+    deprecate :ref
+
+    # Store a reference to a class +klass+.
+    def reference(klass)
+      Reference.store klass
+    end
 
+    # Get the reference for class named +name+.
     def constantize(name)
       Reference.get(name)
     end