Wrapped Rails.env in StringQuestioneer so you can do Rails.env.development? [DHH]

activesupport/CHANGELOG

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 * Namespace Inflector, Dependencies, OrderedOptions, and TimeZone under ActiveSupport [Josh Peek]
 
+* Added StringQuestioneer for doing things like StringQuestioneer.new("production").production? # => true and StringQuestioneer.new("production").development? # => false [DHH]
+
 * Fixed Date#end_of_quarter to not blow up on May 31st [#289 state:resolved] (Danger)
 
 

activesupport/lib/active_support.rb

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
 require 'active_support/ordered_options'
 require 'active_support/option_merger'
 
+require 'active_support/string_questioneer'
+
 require 'active_support/values/time_zone'
 require 'active_support/duration'
 

activesupport/lib/active_support/string_questioneer.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+class StringQuestioneer < String
+  def method_missing(method_name, *arguments)
+    if method_name.to_s.ends_with?("?")
+      self == method_name.to_s[0..-2]
+    else
+      super
+    end
+  end
+end

activesupport/test/string_questioneer_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+require 'abstract_unit'
+
+class StringQuestioneerTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  def test_match
+    assert StringQuestioneer.new("production").production?
+  end
+  
+  def test_miss
+    assert !StringQuestioneer.new("production").development?
+  end
+
+  def test_missing_question_mark
+    assert_raises(NoMethodError) { StringQuestioneer.new("production").production }
+  end
+end

railties/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *Edge*
 
+* Wrapped Rails.env in StringQuestioneer so you can do Rails.env.development? [DHH]
+
 * Fixed that RailsInfoController wasn't considering all requests local in development mode (Edgard Castro) [#310 state:resolved]
 
 

railties/lib/initializer.rb

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def root
     end
   
     def env
-      RAILS_ENV
+      StringQuestioneer.new(RAILS_ENV)
     end
   
     def cache