Merge commit 'origin/master' into mail

45 files changed, 506 insertions, 618 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache.rb
index b91ae65e9f..f2d957f154 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'benchmark'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/array/wrap'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/benchmark'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/exception'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/class/attribute_accessors'
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
     #   ActiveSupport::Cache.lookup_store(MyOwnCacheStore.new)
     #   # => returns MyOwnCacheStore.new
     def self.lookup_store(*store_option)
-      store, *parameters = *([ store_option ].flatten)
+      store, *parameters = *Array.wrap(store_option).flatten
 
       case store
       when Symbol
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache/mem_cache_store.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache/mem_cache_store.rb
index bec9de86ed..1b6b820ca4 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache/mem_cache_store.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/cache/mem_cache_store.rb
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ module ActiveSupport
       #
       # If no addresses are specified, then MemCacheStore will connect to
       # localhost port 11211 (the default memcached port).
+      #
+      # Instead of addresses one can pass in a MemCache-like object. For example:
+      #
+      #   require 'memcached' # gem install memcached; uses C bindings to libmemcached
+      #   ActiveSupport::Cache::MemCacheStore.new(Memcached::Rails.new("localhost:11211"))
       def initialize(*addresses)
         if addresses.first.respond_to?(:get)
           @data = addresses.first
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/wrap.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/wrap.rb
index 38bb68c1ec..f48d5ce500 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/wrap.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/wrap.rb
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@ class Array
   def self.wrap(object)
     if object.nil?
       []
-    # to_a doesn't work correctly with Array() but to_ary always does
-    elsif object.respond_to?(:to_a) && !object.respond_to?(:to_ary)
-      [object]
+    elsif object.respond_to?(:to_ary)
+      object.to_ary
     else
-      Array(object)
+      [object]
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 6672129076..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-require 'date'
-
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/acts_like'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/freeze'
-
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/calculations'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/conversions'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
index b41ad5b686..f6c870035b 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 require 'active_support/inflector'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/conversions'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
-require 'active_support/values/time_zone'
 
 class Date
   DATE_FORMATS = {
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 004fd0ad29..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/acts_like'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/zones'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
index 15a303cf04..b11c916f61 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
@@ -101,15 +101,6 @@ module Enumerable
     size = block_given? ? select(&block).size : self.size
     size > 1
   end
-
-  # Returns true if none of the elements match the given block.
-  #
-  #   success = responses.none? {|r| r.status / 100 == 5 }
-  #
-  # This is a builtin method in Ruby 1.8.7 and later.
-  def none?(&block)
-    !any?(&block)
-  end unless [].respond_to?(:none?)
 end
 
 class Range #:nodoc:
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
index 190173f8a0..35ccec5df4 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'active_support/time'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/array/wrap'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/reverse_merge'
 
 class Hash
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ class Hash
         case value.class.to_s
           when 'Hash'
             if value['type'] == 'array'
-              child_key, entries = value.detect { |k,v| k != 'type' }   # child_key is throwaway
+              child_key, entries = Array.wrap(value.detect { |k,v| k != 'type' })   # child_key is throwaway
               if entries.nil? || (c = value['__content__'] && c.blank?)
                 []
               else
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer.rb
index 7ba018ed7f..a44a1b4c74 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/even_odd'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/multiple'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/time'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/even_odd.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/even_odd.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f9a97b44c..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/even_odd.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-class Integer
-  # Check whether the integer is evenly divisible by the argument.
-  def multiple_of?(number)
-    self % number == 0
-  end
-
-  # Is the integer a multiple of 2?
-  def even?
-    multiple_of? 2
-  end unless method_defined?(:even?)
-
-  # Is the integer not a multiple of 2?
-  def odd?
-    !even?
-  end unless method_defined?(:odd?)
-end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/multiple.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/multiple.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40bea54c67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/multiple.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+class Integer
+  # Check whether the integer is evenly divisible by the argument.
+  def multiple_of?(number)
+    self % number == 0
+  end
+end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/debugger.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/debugger.rb
index 0813a51383..59e03e3df7 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/debugger.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/debugger.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ module Kernel
     end
   end
 
+  undef :breakpoint if respond_to?(:breakpoint)
   def breakpoint
     message = "\n***** The 'breakpoint' command has been renamed 'debugger' -- please change *****\n"
     defined?(Rails) ? Rails.logger.info(message) : $stderr.puts(message)
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb
index cd165626c8..e1ebd4f91c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/name_error.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 class NameError
   # Extract the name of the missing constant from the exception message.
   def missing_name
-    $1 if /((::)?([A-Z]\w*)(::[A-Z]\w*)*)$/ =~ message
+    if /undefined local variable or method/ !~ message
+      $1 if /((::)?([A-Z]\w*)(::[A-Z]\w*)*)$/ =~ message
+    end
   end
 
   # Was this exception raised because the given name was missing?
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/extending.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/extending.rb
index bbf6f8563b..0cc74c8298 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/extending.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/extending.rb
@@ -50,31 +50,4 @@ class Object
   def extend_with_included_modules_from(object) #:nodoc:
     object.extended_by.each { |mod| extend mod }
   end
-
-  unless defined? instance_exec # 1.9
-    module InstanceExecMethods #:nodoc:
-    end
-    include InstanceExecMethods
-
-    # Evaluate the block with the given arguments within the context of
-    # this object, so self is set to the method receiver.
-    #
-    # From Mauricio's http://eigenclass.org/hiki/bounded+space+instance_exec
-    def instance_exec(*args, &block)
-      begin
-        old_critical, Thread.critical = Thread.critical, true
-        n = 0
-        n += 1 while respond_to?(method_name = "__instance_exec#{n}")
-        InstanceExecMethods.module_eval { define_method(method_name, &block) }
-      ensure
-        Thread.critical = old_critical
-      end
-
-      begin
-        send(method_name, *args)
-      ensure
-        InstanceExecMethods.module_eval { remove_method(method_name) } rescue nil
-      end
-    end
-  end
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
index 4ecaab3bbb..866317b17a 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables.rb
@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
 class Object
-  # Available in 1.8.6 and later.
-  unless respond_to?(:instance_variable_defined?)
-    def instance_variable_defined?(variable)
-      instance_variables.include?(variable.to_s)
-    end
-  end
-
   # Returns a hash that maps instance variable names without "@" to their
   # corresponding values. Keys are strings both in Ruby 1.8 and 1.9.
   #
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
index 80011dfbed..3e3af03cc5 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/returning'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/object/tap'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/with_options'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/tap.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/tap.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index db7e715e2d..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/tap.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-class Object
-  # Yields <code>x</code> to the block, and then returns <code>x</code>.
-  # The primary purpose of this method is to "tap into" a method chain,
-  # in order to perform operations on intermediate results within the chain.
-  #
-  #   (1..10).tap { |x| puts "original: #{x.inspect}" }.to_a.
-  #     tap    { |x| puts "array: #{x.inspect}" }.
-  #     select { |x| x%2 == 0 }.
-  #     tap    { |x| puts "evens: #{x.inspect}" }.
-  #     map    { |x| x*x }.
-  #     tap    { |x| puts "squares: #{x.inspect}" }
-  def tap
-    yield self
-    self
-  end unless Object.respond_to?(:tap)
-end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
index 6c52f12712..0365b6af1c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/access'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/string/iterators'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/xchar'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/behavior'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/access.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/access.rb
index 57385d86d2..182b3e745d 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/access.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/access.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+require "active_support/multibyte"
+
 class String
   unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
     # Returns the character at the +position+ treating the string as an array (where 0 is the first character).
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/bytesize.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/bytesize.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index ed051b921e..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/bytesize.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:bytesize)
-  class String
-    alias :bytesize :size
-  end
-end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation.rb
index d9159b690a..2048d35091 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation.rb
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
   You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same license terms as Ruby.
 =end
 
-if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
-  require 'active_support/core_ext/string/bytesize'
+if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9' && !"".respond_to?(:interpolate_without_ruby_19_syntax)
 
   # KeyError is raised by String#% when the string contains a named placeholder
   # that is not contained in the given arguments hash. Ruby 1.9 includes and
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f8aa84024..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-unless '1.9'.respond_to?(:each_char)
-  class String
-    # Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
-    # When $KCODE = 'UTF8', multi-byte characters are yielded appropriately.
-    def each_char
-      require 'strscan' unless defined? ::StringScanner
-      scanner, char = ::StringScanner.new(self), /./mu
-      while c = scanner.scan(char)
-        yield c
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
index f65bb8f75b..641acf62d0 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
 class String
-  unless '1.8.7 and up'.respond_to?(:start_with?)
-    # Does the string start with the specified +prefix+?
-    def start_with?(prefix)
-      prefix = prefix.to_s
-      self[0, prefix.length] == prefix
-    end
-
-    # Does the string end with the specified +suffix+?
-    def end_with?(suffix)
-      suffix = suffix.to_s
-      self[-suffix.length, suffix.length] == suffix
-    end
-  end
-
   alias_method :starts_with?, :start_with?
   alias_method :ends_with?, :end_with?
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index c103cd9dcf..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-require 'active_support/core_ext/symbol/to_proc'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol/to_proc.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol/to_proc.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 520369452b..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/symbol/to_proc.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-class Symbol
-  # Turns the symbol into a simple proc, which is especially useful for enumerations. Examples:
-  #
-  #   # The same as people.collect { |p| p.name }
-  #   people.collect(&:name)
-  #
-  #   # The same as people.select { |p| p.manager? }.collect { |p| p.salary }
-  #   people.select(&:manager?).collect(&:salary)
-  #
-  # This is a builtin method in Ruby 1.8.7 and later.
-  def to_proc
-    Proc.new { |*args| args.shift.__send__(self, *args) }
-  end unless :to_proc.respond_to?(:to_proc)
-end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index b28f7f1a32..0000000000
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/time.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-require 'date'
-require 'time'
-
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/publicize_conversion_methods'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/marshal_with_utc_flag'
-
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/acts_like'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/calculations'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/conversions'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/zones'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
index 7f6f012721..e858bcdc80 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
           next
         end
         [ nesting_camel ]
-      end.flatten.compact.uniq
+      end.compact.flatten.compact.uniq
     end
 
     # Search for a file in load_paths matching the provided suffix.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecated_callbacks.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecated_callbacks.rb
index 20fb03cbeb..f56fef0b6d 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecated_callbacks.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/deprecated_callbacks.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 require 'active_support/core_ext/array/extract_options'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/array/wrap'
 
 module ActiveSupport
   # Callbacks are hooks into the lifecycle of an object that allow you to trigger logic
@@ -194,8 +195,8 @@ module ActiveSupport
         end
 
         def should_run_callback?(*args)
-          [options[:if]].flatten.compact.all? { |a| evaluate_method(a, *args) } &&
-          ![options[:unless]].flatten.compact.any? { |a| evaluate_method(a, *args) }
+          Array.wrap(options[:if]).flatten.compact.all? { |a| evaluate_method(a, *args) } &&
+          !Array.wrap(options[:unless]).flatten.compact.any? { |a| evaluate_method(a, *args) }
         end
     end
 
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
index 67aea2782f..215a60eba7 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
@@ -1,410 +1,7 @@
-# encoding: utf-8
-require 'iconv'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/string/access'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte'
-
-module ActiveSupport
-  # The Inflector transforms words from singular to plural, class names to table names, modularized class names to ones without,
-  # and class names to foreign keys. The default inflections for pluralization, singularization, and uncountable words are kept
-  # in inflections.rb.
-  #
-  # The Rails core team has stated patches for the inflections library will not be accepted
-  # in order to avoid breaking legacy applications which may be relying on errant inflections.
-  # If you discover an incorrect inflection and require it for your application, you'll need
-  # to correct it yourself (explained below).
-  module Inflector
-    extend self
-
-    # A singleton instance of this class is yielded by Inflector.inflections, which can then be used to specify additional
-    # inflection rules. Examples:
-    #
-    #   ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
-    #     inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1\2en'
-    #     inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
-    #
-    #     inflect.irregular 'octopus', 'octopi'
-    #
-    #     inflect.uncountable "equipment"
-    #   end
-    #
-    # New rules are added at the top. So in the example above, the irregular rule for octopus will now be the first of the
-    # pluralization and singularization rules that is runs. This guarantees that your rules run before any of the rules that may
-    # already have been loaded.
-    class Inflections
-      def self.instance
-        @__instance__ ||= new
-      end
-
-      attr_reader :plurals, :singulars, :uncountables, :humans
-
-      def initialize
-        @plurals, @singulars, @uncountables, @humans = [], [], [], []
-      end
-
-      # Specifies a new pluralization rule and its replacement. The rule can either be a string or a regular expression.
-      # The replacement should always be a string that may include references to the matched data from the rule.
-      def plural(rule, replacement)
-        @uncountables.delete(rule) if rule.is_a?(String)
-        @uncountables.delete(replacement)
-        @plurals.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
-      end
-
-      # Specifies a new singularization rule and its replacement. The rule can either be a string or a regular expression.
-      # The replacement should always be a string that may include references to the matched data from the rule.
-      def singular(rule, replacement)
-        @uncountables.delete(rule) if rule.is_a?(String)
-        @uncountables.delete(replacement)
-        @singulars.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
-      end
-
-      # Specifies a new irregular that applies to both pluralization and singularization at the same time. This can only be used
-      # for strings, not regular expressions. You simply pass the irregular in singular and plural form.
-      #
-      # Examples:
-      #   irregular 'octopus', 'octopi'
-      #   irregular 'person', 'people'
-      def irregular(singular, plural)
-        @uncountables.delete(singular)
-        @uncountables.delete(plural)
-        if singular[0,1].upcase == plural[0,1].upcase
-          plural(Regexp.new("(#{singular[0,1]})#{singular[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + plural[1..-1])
-          plural(Regexp.new("(#{plural[0,1]})#{plural[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + plural[1..-1])
-          singular(Regexp.new("(#{plural[0,1]})#{plural[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + singular[1..-1])
-        else
-          plural(Regexp.new("#{singular[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{singular[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].upcase + plural[1..-1])
-          plural(Regexp.new("#{singular[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{singular[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].downcase + plural[1..-1])
-          plural(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].upcase + plural[1..-1])
-          plural(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].downcase + plural[1..-1])
-          singular(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), singular[0,1].upcase + singular[1..-1])
-          singular(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), singular[0,1].downcase + singular[1..-1])
-        end
-      end
-
-      # Add uncountable words that shouldn't be attempted inflected.
-      #
-      # Examples:
-      #   uncountable "money"
-      #   uncountable "money", "information"
-      #   uncountable %w( money information rice )
-      def uncountable(*words)
-        (@uncountables << words).flatten!
-      end
-
-      # Specifies a humanized form of a string by a regular expression rule or by a string mapping.
-      # When using a regular expression based replacement, the normal humanize formatting is called after the replacement.
-      # When a string is used, the human form should be specified as desired (example: 'The name', not 'the_name')
-      #
-      # Examples:
-      #   human /_cnt$/i, '\1_count'
-      #   human "legacy_col_person_name", "Name"
-      def human(rule, replacement)
-        @humans.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
-      end
-
-      # Clears the loaded inflections within a given scope (default is <tt>:all</tt>).
-      # Give the scope as a symbol of the inflection type, the options are: <tt>:plurals</tt>,
-      # <tt>:singulars</tt>, <tt>:uncountables</tt>, <tt>:humans</tt>.
-      #
-      # Examples:
-      #   clear :all
-      #   clear :plurals
-      def clear(scope = :all)
-        case scope
-          when :all
-            @plurals, @singulars, @uncountables = [], [], []
-          else
-            instance_variable_set "@#{scope}", []
-        end
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Yields a singleton instance of Inflector::Inflections so you can specify additional
-    # inflector rules.
-    #
-    # Example:
-    #   ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
-    #     inflect.uncountable "rails"
-    #   end
-    def inflections
-      if block_given?
-        yield Inflections.instance
-      else
-        Inflections.instance
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Returns the plural form of the word in the string.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "post".pluralize             # => "posts"
-    #   "octopus".pluralize          # => "octopi"
-    #   "sheep".pluralize            # => "sheep"
-    #   "words".pluralize            # => "words"
-    #   "CamelOctopus".pluralize     # => "CamelOctopi"
-    def pluralize(word)
-      result = word.to_s.dup
-
-      if word.empty? || inflections.uncountables.include?(result.downcase)
-        result
-      else
-        inflections.plurals.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
-        result
-      end
-    end
-
-    # The reverse of +pluralize+, returns the singular form of a word in a string.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "posts".singularize            # => "post"
-    #   "octopi".singularize           # => "octopus"
-    #   "sheep".singularize            # => "sheep"
-    #   "word".singularize             # => "word"
-    #   "CamelOctopi".singularize      # => "CamelOctopus"
-    def singularize(word)
-      result = word.to_s.dup
-
-      if inflections.uncountables.include?(result.downcase)
-        result
-      else
-        inflections.singulars.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
-        result
-      end
-    end
-
-    # By default, +camelize+ converts strings to UpperCamelCase. If the argument to +camelize+
-    # is set to <tt>:lower</tt> then +camelize+ produces lowerCamelCase.
-    #
-    # +camelize+ will also convert '/' to '::' which is useful for converting paths to namespaces.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "active_record".camelize                # => "ActiveRecord"
-    #   "active_record".camelize(:lower)        # => "activeRecord"
-    #   "active_record/errors".camelize         # => "ActiveRecord::Errors"
-    #   "active_record/errors".camelize(:lower) # => "activeRecord::Errors"
-    def camelize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, first_letter_in_uppercase = true)
-      if first_letter_in_uppercase
-        lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.gsub(/\/(.?)/) { "::#{$1.upcase}" }.gsub(/(?:^|_)(.)/) { $1.upcase }
-      else
-        lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.first.downcase + camelize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)[1..-1]
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create
-    # a nicer looking title. +titleize+ is meant for creating pretty output. It is not
-    # used in the Rails internals.
-    #
-    # +titleize+ is also aliased as as +titlecase+.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "man from the boondocks".titleize # => "Man From The Boondocks"
-    #   "x-men: the last stand".titleize  # => "X Men: The Last Stand"
-    def titleize(word)
-      humanize(underscore(word)).gsub(/\b('?[a-z])/) { $1.capitalize }
-    end
-
-    # The reverse of +camelize+. Makes an underscored, lowercase form from the expression in the string.
-    #
-    # Changes '::' to '/' to convert namespaces to paths.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "ActiveRecord".underscore         # => "active_record"
-    #   "ActiveRecord::Errors".underscore # => active_record/errors
-    def underscore(camel_cased_word)
-      camel_cased_word.to_s.gsub(/::/, '/').
-        gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
-        gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
-        tr("-", "_").
-        downcase
-    end
-
-    # Replaces underscores with dashes in the string.
-    #
-    # Example:
-    #   "puni_puni" # => "puni-puni"
-    def dasherize(underscored_word)
-      underscored_word.gsub(/_/, '-')
-    end
-
-    # Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a
-    # trailing "_id", if any. Like +titleize+, this is meant for creating pretty output.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "employee_salary" # => "Employee salary"
-    #   "author_id"       # => "Author"
-    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
-      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup
-
-      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
-      result.gsub(/_id$/, "").gsub(/_/, " ").capitalize
-    end
-
-    # Removes the module part from the expression in the string.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"
-    #   "Inflections".demodulize                                       # => "Inflections"
-    def demodulize(class_name_in_module)
-      class_name_in_module.to_s.gsub(/^.*::/, '')
-    end
-
-    # Replaces special characters in a string so that it may be used as part of a 'pretty' URL.
-    #
-    # ==== Examples
-    #
-    #   class Person
-    #     def to_param
-    #       "#{id}-#{name.parameterize}"
-    #     end
-    #   end
-    #
-    #   @person = Person.find(1)
-    #   # => #<Person id: 1, name: "Donald E. Knuth">
-    #
-    #   <%= link_to(@person.name, person_path(@person)) %>
-    #   # => <a href="/person/1-donald-e-knuth">Donald E. Knuth</a>
-    def parameterize(string, sep = '-')
-      # replace accented chars with their ascii equivalents
-      parameterized_string = transliterate(string)
-      # Turn unwanted chars into the separator
-      parameterized_string.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9\-_\+]+/i, sep)
-      unless sep.blank?
-        re_sep = Regexp.escape(sep)
-        # No more than one of the separator in a row.
-        parameterized_string.gsub!(/#{re_sep}{2,}/, sep)
-        # Remove leading/trailing separator.
-        parameterized_string.gsub!(/^#{re_sep}|#{re_sep}$/i, '')
-      end
-      parameterized_string.downcase
-    end
-
-
-    # Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
-    def transliterate(string)
-      Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', string).to_s
-    end
-
-    if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9'
-      undef_method :transliterate
-      def transliterate(string)
-        warn "Ruby 1.9 doesn't support Unicode normalization yet"
-        string.dup
-      end
-
-    # The iconv transliteration code doesn't function correctly
-    # on some platforms, but it's very fast where it does function.
-    elsif "foo" != (Inflector.transliterate("föö") rescue nil)
-      undef_method :transliterate
-      def transliterate(string)
-        string.mb_chars.normalize(:kd). # Decompose accented characters
-          gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, '')     # Remove anything non-ASCII entirely (e.g. diacritics).
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Create the name of a table like Rails does for models to table names. This method
-    # uses the +pluralize+ method on the last word in the string.
-    #
-    # Examples
-    #   "RawScaledScorer".tableize # => "raw_scaled_scorers"
-    #   "egg_and_ham".tableize     # => "egg_and_hams"
-    #   "fancyCategory".tableize   # => "fancy_categories"
-    def tableize(class_name)
-      pluralize(underscore(class_name))
-    end
-
-    # Create a class name from a plural table name like Rails does for table names to models.
-    # Note that this returns a string and not a Class. (To convert to an actual class
-    # follow +classify+ with +constantize+.)
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "egg_and_hams".classify # => "EggAndHam"
-    #   "posts".classify        # => "Post"
-    #
-    # Singular names are not handled correctly:
-    #   "business".classify     # => "Busines"
-    def classify(table_name)
-      # strip out any leading schema name
-      camelize(singularize(table_name.to_s.sub(/.*\./, '')))
-    end
-
-    # Creates a foreign key name from a class name.
-    # +separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore+ sets whether
-    # the method should put '_' between the name and 'id'.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   "Message".foreign_key        # => "message_id"
-    #   "Message".foreign_key(false) # => "messageid"
-    #   "Admin::Post".foreign_key    # => "post_id"
-    def foreign_key(class_name, separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore = true)
-      underscore(demodulize(class_name)) + (separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore ? "_id" : "id")
-    end
-
-    # Ruby 1.9 introduces an inherit argument for Module#const_get and
-    # #const_defined? and changes their default behavior.
-    if Module.method(:const_get).arity == 1
-      # Tries to find a constant with the name specified in the argument string:
-      #
-      #   "Module".constantize     # => Module
-      #   "Test::Unit".constantize # => Test::Unit
-      #
-      # The name is assumed to be the one of a top-level constant, no matter whether
-      # it starts with "::" or not. No lexical context is taken into account:
-      #
-      #   C = 'outside'
-      #   module M
-      #     C = 'inside'
-      #     C               # => 'inside'
-      #     "C".constantize # => 'outside', same as ::C
-      #   end
-      #
-      # NameError is raised when the name is not in CamelCase or the constant is
-      # unknown.
-      def constantize(camel_cased_word)
-        names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
-        names.shift if names.empty? || names.first.empty?
-
-        constant = Object
-        names.each do |name|
-          constant = constant.const_defined?(name) ? constant.const_get(name) : constant.const_missing(name)
-        end
-        constant
-      end
-    else
-      def constantize(camel_cased_word) #:nodoc:
-        names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
-        names.shift if names.empty? || names.first.empty?
-
-        constant = Object
-        names.each do |name|
-          constant = constant.const_get(name, false) || constant.const_missing(name)
-        end
-        constant
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Turns a number into an ordinal string used to denote the position in an
-    # ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
-    #
-    # Examples:
-    #   ordinalize(1)     # => "1st"
-    #   ordinalize(2)     # => "2nd"
-    #   ordinalize(1002)  # => "1002nd"
-    #   ordinalize(1003)  # => "1003rd"
-    def ordinalize(number)
-      if (11..13).include?(number.to_i % 100)
-        "#{number}th"
-      else
-        case number.to_i % 10
-          when 1; "#{number}st"
-          when 2; "#{number}nd"
-          when 3; "#{number}rd"
-          else    "#{number}th"
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
-
 # in case active_support/inflector is required without the rest of active_support
+require 'active_support/inflector/inflections'
+require 'active_support/inflector/transliterate'
+require 'active_support/inflector/methods'
+
 require 'active_support/inflections'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb
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+module ActiveSupport
+  module Inflector
+    # A singleton instance of this class is yielded by Inflector.inflections, which can then be used to specify additional
+    # inflection rules. Examples:
+    #
+    #   ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
+    #     inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1\2en'
+    #     inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
+    #
+    #     inflect.irregular 'octopus', 'octopi'
+    #
+    #     inflect.uncountable "equipment"
+    #   end
+    #
+    # New rules are added at the top. So in the example above, the irregular rule for octopus will now be the first of the
+    # pluralization and singularization rules that is runs. This guarantees that your rules run before any of the rules that may
+    # already have been loaded.
+    class Inflections
+      def self.instance
+        @__instance__ ||= new
+      end
+
+      attr_reader :plurals, :singulars, :uncountables, :humans
+
+      def initialize
+        @plurals, @singulars, @uncountables, @humans = [], [], [], []
+      end
+
+      # Specifies a new pluralization rule and its replacement. The rule can either be a string or a regular expression.
+      # The replacement should always be a string that may include references to the matched data from the rule.
+      def plural(rule, replacement)
+        @uncountables.delete(rule) if rule.is_a?(String)
+        @uncountables.delete(replacement)
+        @plurals.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
+      end
+
+      # Specifies a new singularization rule and its replacement. The rule can either be a string or a regular expression.
+      # The replacement should always be a string that may include references to the matched data from the rule.
+      def singular(rule, replacement)
+        @uncountables.delete(rule) if rule.is_a?(String)
+        @uncountables.delete(replacement)
+        @singulars.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
+      end
+
+      # Specifies a new irregular that applies to both pluralization and singularization at the same time. This can only be used
+      # for strings, not regular expressions. You simply pass the irregular in singular and plural form.
+      #
+      # Examples:
+      #   irregular 'octopus', 'octopi'
+      #   irregular 'person', 'people'
+      def irregular(singular, plural)
+        @uncountables.delete(singular)
+        @uncountables.delete(plural)
+        if singular[0,1].upcase == plural[0,1].upcase
+          plural(Regexp.new("(#{singular[0,1]})#{singular[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + plural[1..-1])
+          plural(Regexp.new("(#{plural[0,1]})#{plural[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + plural[1..-1])
+          singular(Regexp.new("(#{plural[0,1]})#{plural[1..-1]}$", "i"), '\1' + singular[1..-1])
+        else
+          plural(Regexp.new("#{singular[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{singular[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].upcase + plural[1..-1])
+          plural(Regexp.new("#{singular[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{singular[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].downcase + plural[1..-1])
+          plural(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].upcase + plural[1..-1])
+          plural(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), plural[0,1].downcase + plural[1..-1])
+          singular(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].upcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), singular[0,1].upcase + singular[1..-1])
+          singular(Regexp.new("#{plural[0,1].downcase}(?i)#{plural[1..-1]}$"), singular[0,1].downcase + singular[1..-1])
+        end
+      end
+
+      # Add uncountable words that shouldn't be attempted inflected.
+      #
+      # Examples:
+      #   uncountable "money"
+      #   uncountable "money", "information"
+      #   uncountable %w( money information rice )
+      def uncountable(*words)
+        (@uncountables << words).flatten!
+      end
+
+      # Specifies a humanized form of a string by a regular expression rule or by a string mapping.
+      # When using a regular expression based replacement, the normal humanize formatting is called after the replacement.
+      # When a string is used, the human form should be specified as desired (example: 'The name', not 'the_name')
+      #
+      # Examples:
+      #   human /_cnt$/i, '\1_count'
+      #   human "legacy_col_person_name", "Name"
+      def human(rule, replacement)
+        @humans.insert(0, [rule, replacement])
+      end
+
+      # Clears the loaded inflections within a given scope (default is <tt>:all</tt>).
+      # Give the scope as a symbol of the inflection type, the options are: <tt>:plurals</tt>,
+      # <tt>:singulars</tt>, <tt>:uncountables</tt>, <tt>:humans</tt>.
+      #
+      # Examples:
+      #   clear :all
+      #   clear :plurals
+      def clear(scope = :all)
+        case scope
+          when :all
+            @plurals, @singulars, @uncountables = [], [], []
+          else
+            instance_variable_set "@#{scope}", []
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Yields a singleton instance of Inflector::Inflections so you can specify additional
+    # inflector rules.
+    #
+    # Example:
+    #   ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
+    #     inflect.uncountable "rails"
+    #   end
+    def inflections
+      if block_given?
+        yield Inflections.instance
+      else
+        Inflections.instance
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Returns the plural form of the word in the string.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "post".pluralize             # => "posts"
+    #   "octopus".pluralize          # => "octopi"
+    #   "sheep".pluralize            # => "sheep"
+    #   "words".pluralize            # => "words"
+    #   "CamelOctopus".pluralize     # => "CamelOctopi"
+    def pluralize(word)
+      result = word.to_s.dup
+
+      if word.empty? || inflections.uncountables.include?(result.downcase)
+        result
+      else
+        inflections.plurals.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
+        result
+      end
+    end
+
+    # The reverse of +pluralize+, returns the singular form of a word in a string.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "posts".singularize            # => "post"
+    #   "octopi".singularize           # => "octopus"
+    #   "sheep".singularize            # => "sheep"
+    #   "word".singularize             # => "word"
+    #   "CamelOctopi".singularize      # => "CamelOctopus"
+    def singularize(word)
+      result = word.to_s.dup
+
+      if inflections.uncountables.include?(result.downcase)
+        result
+      else
+        inflections.singulars.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
+        result
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a
+    # trailing "_id", if any. Like +titleize+, this is meant for creating pretty output.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "employee_salary" # => "Employee salary"
+    #   "author_id"       # => "Author"
+    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
+      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup
+
+      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
+      result.gsub(/_id$/, "").gsub(/_/, " ").capitalize
+    end
+
+    # Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create
+    # a nicer looking title. +titleize+ is meant for creating pretty output. It is not
+    # used in the Rails internals.
+    #
+    # +titleize+ is also aliased as as +titlecase+.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "man from the boondocks".titleize # => "Man From The Boondocks"
+    #   "x-men: the last stand".titleize  # => "X Men: The Last Stand"
+    def titleize(word)
+      humanize(underscore(word)).gsub(/\b('?[a-z])/) { $1.capitalize }
+    end
+
+    # Create the name of a table like Rails does for models to table names. This method
+    # uses the +pluralize+ method on the last word in the string.
+    #
+    # Examples
+    #   "RawScaledScorer".tableize # => "raw_scaled_scorers"
+    #   "egg_and_ham".tableize     # => "egg_and_hams"
+    #   "fancyCategory".tableize   # => "fancy_categories"
+    def tableize(class_name)
+      pluralize(underscore(class_name))
+    end
+
+    # Create a class name from a plural table name like Rails does for table names to models.
+    # Note that this returns a string and not a Class. (To convert to an actual class
+    # follow +classify+ with +constantize+.)
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "egg_and_hams".classify # => "EggAndHam"
+    #   "posts".classify        # => "Post"
+    #
+    # Singular names are not handled correctly:
+    #   "business".classify     # => "Busines"
+    def classify(table_name)
+      # strip out any leading schema name
+      camelize(singularize(table_name.to_s.sub(/.*\./, '')))
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41277893e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+module ActiveSupport
+  # The Inflector transforms words from singular to plural, class names to table names, modularized class names to ones without,
+  # and class names to foreign keys. The default inflections for pluralization, singularization, and uncountable words are kept
+  # in inflections.rb.
+  #
+  # The Rails core team has stated patches for the inflections library will not be accepted
+  # in order to avoid breaking legacy applications which may be relying on errant inflections.
+  # If you discover an incorrect inflection and require it for your application, you'll need
+  # to correct it yourself (explained below).
+  module Inflector
+    extend self
+
+    # By default, +camelize+ converts strings to UpperCamelCase. If the argument to +camelize+
+    # is set to <tt>:lower</tt> then +camelize+ produces lowerCamelCase.
+    #
+    # +camelize+ will also convert '/' to '::' which is useful for converting paths to namespaces.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "active_record".camelize                # => "ActiveRecord"
+    #   "active_record".camelize(:lower)        # => "activeRecord"
+    #   "active_record/errors".camelize         # => "ActiveRecord::Errors"
+    #   "active_record/errors".camelize(:lower) # => "activeRecord::Errors"
+    def camelize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, first_letter_in_uppercase = true)
+      if first_letter_in_uppercase
+        lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.gsub(/\/(.?)/) { "::#{$1.upcase}" }.gsub(/(?:^|_)(.)/) { $1.upcase }
+      else
+        lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s[0].chr.downcase + camelize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)[1..-1]
+      end
+    end
+
+    # The reverse of +camelize+. Makes an underscored, lowercase form from the expression in the string.
+    #
+    # Changes '::' to '/' to convert namespaces to paths.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "ActiveRecord".underscore         # => "active_record"
+    #   "ActiveRecord::Errors".underscore # => active_record/errors
+    def underscore(camel_cased_word)
+      camel_cased_word.to_s.gsub(/::/, '/').
+        gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
+        gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
+        tr("-", "_").
+        downcase
+    end
+
+    # Replaces underscores with dashes in the string.
+    #
+    # Example:
+    #   "puni_puni" # => "puni-puni"
+    def dasherize(underscored_word)
+      underscored_word.gsub(/_/, '-')
+    end
+
+    # Removes the module part from the expression in the string.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"
+    #   "Inflections".demodulize                                       # => "Inflections"
+    def demodulize(class_name_in_module)
+      class_name_in_module.to_s.gsub(/^.*::/, '')
+    end
+
+    # Creates a foreign key name from a class name.
+    # +separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore+ sets whether
+    # the method should put '_' between the name and 'id'.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   "Message".foreign_key        # => "message_id"
+    #   "Message".foreign_key(false) # => "messageid"
+    #   "Admin::Post".foreign_key    # => "post_id"
+    def foreign_key(class_name, separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore = true)
+      underscore(demodulize(class_name)) + (separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore ? "_id" : "id")
+    end
+
+    # Ruby 1.9 introduces an inherit argument for Module#const_get and
+    # #const_defined? and changes their default behavior.
+    if Module.method(:const_get).arity == 1
+      # Tries to find a constant with the name specified in the argument string:
+      #
+      #   "Module".constantize     # => Module
+      #   "Test::Unit".constantize # => Test::Unit
+      #
+      # The name is assumed to be the one of a top-level constant, no matter whether
+      # it starts with "::" or not. No lexical context is taken into account:
+      #
+      #   C = 'outside'
+      #   module M
+      #     C = 'inside'
+      #     C               # => 'inside'
+      #     "C".constantize # => 'outside', same as ::C
+      #   end
+      #
+      # NameError is raised when the name is not in CamelCase or the constant is
+      # unknown.
+      def constantize(camel_cased_word)
+        names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
+        names.shift if names.empty? || names.first.empty?
+
+        constant = Object
+        names.each do |name|
+          constant = constant.const_defined?(name) ? constant.const_get(name) : constant.const_missing(name)
+        end
+        constant
+      end
+    else
+      def constantize(camel_cased_word) #:nodoc:
+        names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
+        names.shift if names.empty? || names.first.empty?
+
+        constant = Object
+        names.each do |name|
+          constant = constant.const_get(name, false) || constant.const_missing(name)
+        end
+        constant
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Turns a number into an ordinal string used to denote the position in an
+    # ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
+    #
+    # Examples:
+    #   ordinalize(1)     # => "1st"
+    #   ordinalize(2)     # => "2nd"
+    #   ordinalize(1002)  # => "1002nd"
+    #   ordinalize(1003)  # => "1003rd"
+    def ordinalize(number)
+      if (11..13).include?(number.to_i % 100)
+        "#{number}th"
+      else
+        case number.to_i % 10
+          when 1; "#{number}st"
+          when 2; "#{number}nd"
+          when 3; "#{number}rd"
+          else    "#{number}th"
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/transliterate.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/transliterate.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30a9072ee1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/transliterate.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+require 'iconv'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte'
+
+module ActiveSupport
+  module Inflector
+    extend self
+    
+    # Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
+    def transliterate(string)
+      Iconv.iconv('ascii//ignore//translit', 'utf-8', string).to_s
+    end
+
+    if RUBY_VERSION >= '1.9'
+      undef_method :transliterate
+      def transliterate(string)
+        warn "Ruby 1.9 doesn't support Unicode normalization yet"
+        string.dup
+      end
+
+    # The iconv transliteration code doesn't function correctly
+    # on some platforms, but it's very fast where it does function.
+    elsif "foo" != (Inflector.transliterate("föö") rescue nil)
+      undef_method :transliterate
+      def transliterate(string)
+        string.mb_chars.normalize(:kd). # Decompose accented characters
+          gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]+/, '')     # Remove anything non-ASCII entirely (e.g. diacritics).
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Replaces special characters in a string so that it may be used as part of a 'pretty' URL.
+    #
+    # ==== Examples
+    #
+    #   class Person
+    #     def to_param
+    #       "#{id}-#{name.parameterize}"
+    #     end
+    #   end
+    #
+    #   @person = Person.find(1)
+    #   # => #<Person id: 1, name: "Donald E. Knuth">
+    #
+    #   <%= link_to(@person.name, person_path(@person)) %>
+    #   # => <a href="/person/1-donald-e-knuth">Donald E. Knuth</a>
+    def parameterize(string, sep = '-')
+      # replace accented chars with their ascii equivalents
+      parameterized_string = transliterate(string)
+      # Turn unwanted chars into the separator
+      parameterized_string.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9\-_\+]+/i, sep)
+      unless sep.nil? || sep.empty?
+        re_sep = Regexp.escape(sep)
+        # No more than one of the separator in a row.
+        parameterized_string.gsub!(/#{re_sep}{2,}/, sep)
+        # Remove leading/trailing separator.
+        parameterized_string.gsub!(/^#{re_sep}|#{re_sep}$/i, '')
+      end
+      parameterized_string.downcase
+    end    
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb
index c6c17a3c4e..cfe28d7bb9 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb
@@ -23,15 +23,18 @@ module ActiveSupport
       private
         def convert_dates_from(data)
           case data
-            when DATE_REGEX
-              DateTime.parse(data)
-            when Array
-              data.map! { |d| convert_dates_from(d) }
-            when Hash
-              data.each do |key, value|
-                data[key] = convert_dates_from(value)
-              end
-            else data
+          when nil
+            nil
+          when DATE_REGEX
+            DateTime.parse(data)
+          when Array
+            data.map! { |d| convert_dates_from(d) }
+          when Hash
+            data.each do |key, value|
+              data[key] = convert_dates_from(value)
+            end
+          else
+            data
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb
index 8e8f9022c1..3c15056c41 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/module/delegation'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/instance_variables'
 require 'active_support/deprecation'
 
-require 'active_support/time_with_zone'
+require 'active_support/time'
 
 # Hack to load json gem first so we can overwrite its to_json.
 begin
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb
index 282346b1a6..87e4b1ad33 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/message_verifier.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-require 'active_support/core_ext/string/bytesize'
-
 module ActiveSupport
   # MessageVerifier makes it easy to generate and verify messages which are signed
   # to prevent tampering.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb
index d372b0ab1f..c7225fec06 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
+require 'active_support/core_ext/string/access'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/behavior'
 
 module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
       #   'Café périferôl'.mb_chars.index('ô') #=> 12
       #   'Café périferôl'.mb_chars.index(/\w/u) #=> 0
       def index(needle, offset=0)
-        wrapped_offset = self.first(offset).wrapped_string.length
+        wrapped_offset = first(offset).wrapped_string.length
         index = @wrapped_string.index(needle, wrapped_offset)
         index ? (self.class.u_unpack(@wrapped_string.slice(0...index)).size) : nil
       end
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
       #   'Café périferôl'.mb_chars.rindex(/\w/u) #=> 13
       def rindex(needle, offset=nil)
         offset ||= length
-        wrapped_offset = self.first(offset).wrapped_string.length
+        wrapped_offset = first(offset).wrapped_string.length
         index = @wrapped_string.rindex(needle, wrapped_offset)
         index ? (self.class.u_unpack(@wrapped_string.slice(0...index)).size) : nil
       end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
index 9eae3bebe2..7a9f76b26a 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
       def subscribe
         @queue.subscribe(@pattern) do |*args|
-          yield *args
+          yield(*args)
         end
       end
     end
@@ -144,27 +144,21 @@ module ActiveSupport
     class LittleFanout
       def initialize
         @listeners = []
-        @stream    = Queue.new
-        Thread.new { consume }
       end
 
       def publish(*args)
-        @stream.push(args)
+        @listeners.each { |l| l.publish(*args) }
       end
 
       def subscribe(pattern=nil, &block)
         @listeners << Listener.new(pattern, &block)
       end
 
-      def consume
-        while args = @stream.shift
-          @listeners.each { |l| l.publish(*args) }
-        end
+      def drained?
+        @listeners.all? &:drained?
       end
 
       class Listener
-        # attr_reader :thread
-
         def initialize(pattern, &block)
           @pattern = pattern
           @subscriber = block
@@ -183,6 +177,10 @@ module ActiveSupport
             @subscriber.call(*args)
           end
         end
+
+        def drained?
+          @queue.size.zero?
+        end
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/rescuable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/rescuable.rb
index 879662c16c..f0119f5994 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/rescuable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/rescuable.rb
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
     def handler_for_rescue(exception)
       # We go from right to left because pairs are pushed onto rescue_handlers
       # as rescue_from declarations are found.
-      _, rescuer = Array(rescue_handlers).reverse.detect do |klass_name, handler|
+      _, rescuer = rescue_handlers.reverse.detect do |klass_name, handler|
         # The purpose of allowing strings in rescue_from is to support the
         # declaration of handler associations for exception classes whose
         # definition is yet unknown.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/ruby/shim.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/ruby/shim.rb
index 37c57c485a..f811239077 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/ruby/shim.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/ruby/shim.rb
@@ -4,21 +4,15 @@
 # Date        next_year, next_month
 # DateTime    to_date, to_datetime, xmlschema
 # Enumerable  group_by, each_with_object, none?
-# Integer     even?, odd?
-# Object      tap
 # Process     Process.daemon
 # REXML       security fix
 # String      ord
-# Symbol      to_proc
 # Time        to_date, to_time, to_datetime
 require 'active_support'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/date/calculations'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/enumerable'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/even_odd'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/object/tap'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/process/daemon'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/conversions'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/rexml'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/symbol/to_proc'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/time/conversions'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb
index 7952eb50c3..0e998d2dbe 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/setup_and_teardown.rb
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ module ActiveSupport
             run_callbacks :setup
             result = super
           rescue Exception => e
-            result = runner.puke(self.class, self.name, e)
+            result = runner.puke(self.class, method_name, e)
           ensure
             begin
               run_callbacks :teardown, :enumerator => :reverse_each
             rescue Exception => e
-              result = runner.puke(self.class, self.name, e)
+              result = runner.puke(self.class, method_name, e)
             end
           end
           result
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time.rb
index d36a683601..0f421421d0 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 require 'active_support'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time'
 
 module ActiveSupport
   autoload :Duration, 'active_support/duration'
@@ -12,3 +9,26 @@ module ActiveSupport
     [Duration, TimeWithZone, TimeZone]
   end
 end
+
+require 'date'
+require 'time'
+
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/publicize_conversion_methods'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/marshal_with_utc_flag'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/acts_like'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/calculations'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/conversions'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/time/zones'
+
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date/acts_like'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date/freeze'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date/calculations'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date/conversions'
+
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/acts_like'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/zones'
+
+require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/time'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/numeric/time'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
index a64128e49e..8304f6c434 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-require 'active_support/duration'
-require 'active_support/values/time_zone'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/numeric/time'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/time'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time/conversions'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date/conversions'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time/conversions'
+require "active_support/values/time_zone"
 
 module ActiveSupport
   # A Time-like class that can represent a time in any time zone. Necessary because standard Ruby Time instances are
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
index 53a4c7acf5..cbb8e890ae 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-require 'active_support/core_ext/time'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/date_time'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank'
 
 # The TimeZone class serves as a wrapper around TZInfo::Timezone instances. It allows us to do the following:
 #
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb
index 4a711b7e25..eb5080888c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ end
   unless ActiveSupport.requirable? lib
     # Try to activate a gem ~> satisfying the requested version first.
     begin
-      gem lib, "~> #{version}"
+      gem lib, ">= #{version}"
       # Use the vendored lib if the gem's missing or we aren't using RubyGems.
     rescue LoadError, NoMethodError
       # There could be symlinks
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb
index 36fe9510ba..c4aaba7ab3 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb
@@ -43,7 +43,14 @@ class NilClass
 
   private
     def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
-      raise_nil_warning_for METHOD_CLASS_MAP[method], method, caller
+      # Ruby 1.9.2: disallow explicit coercion via method_missing.
+      if method == :to_ary || method == :to_str
+        super
+      elsif klass = METHOD_CLASS_MAP[method]
+        raise_nil_warning_for klass, method, caller
+      else
+        super
+      end
     end
 
     # Raises a NoMethodError when you attempt to call a method on +nil+.
@@ -55,4 +62,3 @@ class NilClass
       raise NoMethodError, message, with_caller || caller
     end
 end
-