Active support inflector broken

rubyonrails-core
1

The inflector seem to be broken in active_support 3.0.4 and 3.0.5.rc1

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):002:0> require 'active_support' => true irb(main):003:0> require 'active_support/core_ext/string' => true irb(main):004:0> "test".pluralize => "test" irb(main):005:0>

using active_support 3.0.3 or earlier correctly returns "tests" for the above.

It seems hard to believe that this is fundamentally broken, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

This surfaced in my (now broken) script that uses the 'mail' gem which in turns require active_support etc.

2

Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.4) ruby-1.9.2-p0 > "test".pluralize => "tests"

Looks ok here.

3

It seems you need to include active_support/inflections too:

odd:~ $ irb

require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections'

=> true

'test'.pluralize

=> "test"

require 'active_support/inflections'

=> true

'test'.pluralize

=> "tests"

Don't know the reason this changed. Everything related with inflections is now required in 'active_support/inflector', So I suggest require'ing that.

rgrds, Jan

4

It seems you need to include active_support/inflections too:

odd:~ $ irb

require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections'

=> true

'test'.pluralize

=> "test"

require 'active_support/inflections'

=> true

'test'.pluralize

=> "tests"

Don't know the reason this changed. Everything related with inflections is now required in 'active_support/inflector', So I suggest require'ing that.

rgrds, Jan

Yeah, it's not me that's requiring activesupport. I'm sure it works OK in rails because rails has changed to (or possibly always did) accommodate the changed activesupport behaviour. There are quiet a few other gems that use activesupport outside of rails and many of those are now broken. I'm including the 'mail' gem into my (non-rails) script and the mail gem is including activesupport.

Is there a sound reason for this behaviour change from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 onwards? It seems that there will be a lot of people caught out by this. The Sequel library seems well broken when using activesupport in a non-rails script.

Regards, Gary.