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Diffstat (limited to 'activesupport/lib/active_support')
| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb index 39648727fd..665545db3b 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb @@ -219,7 +219,12 @@ 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 |