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-rw-r--r--activesupport/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb9
-rw-r--r--activesupport/test/dependencies_test.rb8
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index b15cdc9aab..004a5b00df 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Equate Kernel.const_missing with Object.const_missing. Fixes #5988. [Nicholas Seckar]
+
* Add ApplicationController special case to Dependencies. [Nicholas Seckar]
* Don't pad remaining places with in_groups_of if specified padding value is false. [Marcel Molina Jr.]
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
index 39244b23be..bccbd549b1 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb
@@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ module Dependencies #:nodoc:
# using const_missing.
def load_missing_constant(from_mod, const_name)
log_call from_mod, const_name
+ if from_mod == Kernel
+ if ::Object.const_defined?(const_name)
+ log "Returning Object::#{const_name} for Kernel::#{const_name}"
+ return ::Object.const_get(const_name)
+ else
+ log "Substituting Object for Kernel"
+ from_mod = Object
+ end
+ end
# If we have an anonymous module, all we can do is attempt to load from Object.
from_mod = Object if from_mod.name.empty?
diff --git a/activesupport/test/dependencies_test.rb b/activesupport/test/dependencies_test.rb
index 9c5ee0146a..c80e35c5f6 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/dependencies_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/dependencies_test.rb
@@ -420,4 +420,12 @@ class DependenciesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
end
end
+ def test_const_missing_on_kernel_should_fallback_to_object
+ with_loading 'autoloading_fixtures' do
+ kls = Kernel::E
+ assert_equal "E", kls.name
+ assert_equal kls.object_id, Kernel::E.object_id
+ end
+ end
+
end