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-rw-r--r--activesupport/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb4
-rw-r--r--activesupport/test/inflector_test.rb2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index 81d59d512a..6d3fd44368 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Fix constantize to properly handle names beginning with '::'. [Nicholas Seckar]
+
* Make String#last return the string instead of nil when it is shorter than the limit [Scott Barron].
* Added delegation support to Module that allows multiple delegations at once (unlike Forwardable in the stdlib) [DHH]. Example:
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
index 2e69b74c54..f91a73c7f3 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ module Inflector
def constantize(camel_cased_word)
raise NameError, "#{camel_cased_word.inspect} is not a valid constant name!" unless
- camel_cased_word.split("::").all? { |part| /^[A-Z]\w*$/ =~ part }
+ /^(::)?([A-Z]\w*)(::[A-Z]\w*)*$/ =~ camel_cased_word
- camel_cased_word = "::#{camel_cased_word}" unless camel_cased_word[0, 2] == '::'
+ camel_cased_word = "::#{camel_cased_word}" unless $1
Object.module_eval(camel_cased_word, __FILE__, __LINE__)
end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/inflector_test.rb b/activesupport/test/inflector_test.rb
index d0d7b0bedd..c513abc967 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/inflector_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/inflector_test.rb
@@ -274,7 +274,9 @@ class InflectorTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
def test_constantize
assert_equal Ace::Base::Case, Inflector.constantize("Ace::Base::Case")
+ assert_equal Ace::Base::Case, Inflector.constantize("::Ace::Base::Case")
assert_equal InflectorTest, Inflector.constantize("InflectorTest")
+ assert_equal InflectorTest, Inflector.constantize("::InflectorTest")
assert_raises(NameError) { Inflector.constantize("UnknownClass") }
assert_raises(NameError) { Inflector.constantize("An invalid string") }
end