removes unused method Class#subclasses

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
index 652be4ed78..82163eeb30 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/class/removal.rb
@@ -16,13 +16,6 @@ class Class #:nodoc:
     Object.remove_subclasses_of(self)
   end
 
-  # Returns an array with the names of the subclasses of +self+ as strings.
-  #
-  #   Integer.subclasses # => ["Bignum", "Fixnum"]
-  def subclasses
-    Object.subclasses_of(self).map { |o| o.to_s }
-  end
-
   # Removes the classes in +klasses+ from their parent module.
   #
   # Ordinary classes belong to some module via a constant. This method computes
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/class_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/class_test.rb
index bb4eb3c7d5..58b745a8b2 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/class_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/class_test.rb
@@ -34,14 +34,4 @@ class ClassTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     Class.remove_class(Y::Z::C)
     assert_raise(NameError) { Y::Z::C.is_a?(Class) }
   end
-  
-  def test_retrieving_subclasses
-    @parent   = eval("class D; end; D")
-    @sub      = eval("class E < D; end; E")
-    @subofsub = eval("class F < E; end; F")
-    assert_equal 2, @parent.subclasses.size
-    assert_equal [@subofsub.to_s], @sub.subclasses
-    assert_equal [], @subofsub.subclasses
-    assert_equal [@sub.to_s, @subofsub.to_s].sort, @parent.subclasses.sort
-  end
 end