Ruby 2.4: compat with new Array#sum

Ruby 2.4 introduces `Array#sum`, but it only supports numeric elements,
breaking our `Enumerable#sum` which supports arbitrary `Object#+`.
To fix, override `Array#sum` with our compatible implementation.

Native Ruby 2.4:

    %w[ a b ].sum
    # => TypeError: String can't be coerced into Fixnum

With `Enumerable#sum` shim:

    %w[ a b ].sum
    # => 'ab'

We tried shimming the fast path and falling back to the compatible path
if it fails, but that ends up slower even in simple causes due to the cost
of exception handling. Our only choice is to override the native `Array#sum`
with our `Enumerable#sum`.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
index 8a74ad4d66..f297214d0f 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
@@ -104,3 +104,17 @@ class Range #:nodoc:
     end
   end
 end
+
+# Array#sum was added in Ruby 2.4 but it only works with Numeric elements.
+#
+# We tried shimming it to attempt the fast native method, rescue TypeError,
+# and fall back to the compatible implementation, but that's much slower than
+# just calling the compat method in the first place.
+if Array.instance_methods(false).include?(:sum) && (%w[a].sum rescue true)
+  class Array
+    def sum(*args) #:nodoc:
+      # Use Enumerable#sum instead.
+      super
+    end
+  end
+end