3 files changed, 14 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
index 180b93be10..045ac4cde6 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 ## Rails 3.2.8 ##
 
-*   No changes.
+*   Reverted the deprecation of ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable. *Rafael Mendonça França*
 
 ## Rails 3.2.7 (Jul 26, 2012) ##
 
-* Hash#fetch(fetch) is not the same as doing hash[key]
-* adds a missing require [fixes #6896]
-* make sure the inflection rules are loaded when cherry-picking active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb [fixes #6884]
-* Merge pull request #6857 from rsutphin/as_core_ext_time_missing_require
-* bump AS deprecation_horizon to 4.0
+*   Hash#fetch(fetch) is not the same as doing hash[key]
+
+*   adds a missing require [fixes #6896]
+
+*   make sure the inflection rules are loaded when cherry-picking active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb [fixes #6884]
+
+*   Merge pull request #6857 from rsutphin/as_core_ext_time_missing_require
+
+*   bump AS deprecation_horizon to 4.0
 
 ## Rails 3.2.6 (Jun 12, 2012) ##
 
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/variable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/variable.rb
index 17b709decc..5685ed18b7 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/variable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/variable.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-require 'active_support/deprecation'
-
 module ActiveSupport
   module JSON
-    # Deprecated: A string that returns itself as its JSON-encoded form.
+    # A string that returns itself as its JSON-encoded form.
     class Variable < String
-      def initialize(*args)
-        ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn 'ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 4.0. ' \
-                                        'For your own custom JSON literals, define #as_json and #encode_json yourself.'
-        super
-      end
-
       def as_json(options = nil) self end #:nodoc:
       def encode_json(encoder) self end #:nodoc:
     end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/json/encoding_test.rb b/activesupport/test/json/encoding_test.rb
index d327f34140..a9590f164f 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/json/encoding_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/json/encoding_test.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require 'abstract_unit'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections'
 require 'active_support/json'
 
-class TestJSONEncoding < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+class TestJSONEncoding < Test::Unit::TestCase
   class Foo
     def initialize(a, b)
       @a, @b = a, b
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ class TestJSONEncoding < ActiveSupport::TestCase
   HashlikeTests = [[ Hashlike.new, %({\"a\":1}) ]]
   CustomTests   = [[ Custom.new, '"custom"' ]]
 
+  VariableTests = [[ ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('foo'), 'foo'],
+                   [ ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('alert("foo")'), 'alert("foo")']]
   RegexpTests   = [[ /^a/, '"(?-mix:^a)"' ], [/^\w{1,2}[a-z]+/ix, '"(?ix-m:^\\\\w{1,2}[a-z]+)"']]
 
   DateTests     = [[ Date.new(2005,2,1), %("2005/02/01") ]]
@@ -77,13 +79,6 @@ class TestJSONEncoding < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     end
   end
 
-  def test_json_variable
-    assert_deprecated do
-      assert_equal ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('foo'), 'foo'
-      assert_equal ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('alert("foo")'), 'alert("foo")'
-    end
-  end
-
   def test_hash_encoding
     assert_equal %({\"a\":\"b\"}), ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(:a => :b)
     assert_equal %({\"a\":1}), ActiveSupport::JSON.encode('a' => 1)