Array.instance_methods different for jRuby inside Rails

[straydogstudio]

Submitted this to Rails, they declined the issue as being a jRuby problem. Resubmitted here should you wish to address.

Description

Needed each_with_index in Array.instance_methods. Found it was missing (along with several other methods) within Rails when using jRuby 9.

Steps to reproduce

Using Docker:

docker run -it --rm --name arraytest jruby /bin/bash
# gem install rails
# gem install listen
# rails new arraytest -O
# cd arraytest
# echo "gem 'listen', group: :development" >> Gemfile
# bundle exec rails c
irb > Array.instance_methods.select {|m| m =~ /each/}
irb > exit
# irb
irb > Array.instance_methods.select {|m| m =~ /each/}

To check MRI, replace the jruby image with ruby.

Expected behavior

Whether in our out of Rails, using MRI or jRuby, Array.instance_methods should return the same thing.

Actual behavior

When using jRuby 9 inside Rails 5.0, Array.instance_methods doesn't have each_cons, each_entry, each_with_index, each_with_object, as well as several other methods. They are present with MRI. Outside Rails they are present in jRuby.

This is the difference, which may contain some artifacts due to other required gem changes between MRI and jRuby:

 [:all?, :byebug, :chunk, :chunk_while, :collect_concat, :detect, :each_cons, :each_entry, :each_with_index, :each_with_object, :entries, :exclude?, :find, :find_all, :flat_map, :grep, :grep_v, :group_by, :index_by, :inject, :lazy, :many?, :max_by, :member?, :min_by, :minmax, :minmax_by, :none?, :one?, :partition, :pluck, :reduce, :singleton_method, :slice_after, :slice_before, :slice_when, :sort_by, :sum, :to_h, :to_ruby, :to_set]

System configuration

Rails version: 5.0.3 or 5.1.1

Ruby version: jRuby 9.1.10.0, MRI 2.4.1p111

Temporary fix

In config/application.rb, right before the Bundler.require* statement, add:

Array.include Enumerable

Other

Found because the Axlsx gem uses Array.instance_methods to delegate methods. When used inside Rails 5.0 with jRuby it fails. See randym/axlsx#533

Submitted and declined as a Rails issue: rails/rails#29329

[enebo]

@straydogstudio by chance do you know if this behavior is the same with MRI 2.3.x? JRuby 9.1.x is not compatible with 2.4 (although we are working on that support) and it would be good to know if this a 2.3- or a 2.4 issue.

[straydogstudio]

@enebo I do not know. But I'll try to check on that in the next few days.

[bmulvihill]

I opened related issue here: #4723 @enebo @straydogstudio

[enebo]

@bmulvihill ah great..I missed that. I could see prepend being responsible as it has caused other oddities since we impld it.

[headius]

I have not confirmed it but this should be fixed by the fixes for #4723. Please verify.