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-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb7
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