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Diffstat (limited to 'activesupport')
| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/CHANGELOG | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG index 537980d6a1..63f406cd9f 100644 --- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG +++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ *Rails 3.2.0 (unreleased)* +* Added safe_constantize that constantizes a string but returns nil instead of an exception if the constant (or part of it) does not exist [Ryan Oblak] + * ActiveSupport::OrderedHash is now marked as extractable when using Array#extract_options! [Prem Sichanugrist] * Added Array#prepend as an alias for Array#unshift and Array#append as an alias for Array#<< [DHH] diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb index dd232a5e2f..934529d496 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb @@ -239,10 +239,13 @@ module ActiveSupport # "C".safe_constantize # => 'outside', same as ::C # end # - # nil is returned when the name is not in CamelCase or the constant is + # nil is returned when the name is not in CamelCase or the constant (or part of it) is # unknown. # # "blargle".safe_constantize # => nil + # "UnknownModule".safe_constantize # => nil + # "UnknownModule::Foo::Bar".safe_constantize # => nil + # def safe_constantize(camel_cased_word) begin constantize(camel_cased_word) |