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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
index 39648727fd..9ca5a388f8 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
# encoding: utf-8
-require 'active_support/inflector/inflections'
require 'active_support/inflections'
module ActiveSupport
@@ -219,7 +218,12 @@ module ActiveSupport
# unknown.
def constantize(camel_cased_word)
names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
- names.shift if names.empty? || names.first.empty?
+
+ # Trigger a builtin NameError exception including the ill-formed constant in the message.
+ Object.const_get(camel_cased_word) if names.empty?
+
+ # Remove the first blank element in case of '::ClassName' notation.
+ names.shift if names.size > 1 && names.first.empty?
names.inject(Object) do |constant, name|
if constant == Object
@@ -314,9 +318,14 @@ module ActiveSupport
private
# Mount a regular expression that will match part by part of the constant.
- # For instance, Foo::Bar::Baz will generate Foo(::Bar(::Baz)?)?
+ #
+ # const_regexp("Foo::Bar::Baz") # => /Foo(::Bar(::Baz)?)?/
+ # const_regexp("::") # => /::/
def const_regexp(camel_cased_word) #:nodoc:
parts = camel_cased_word.split("::")
+
+ return Regexp.escape(camel_cased_word) if parts.blank?
+
last = parts.pop
parts.reverse.inject(last) do |acc, part|