Added a 'whiny nil' that's aim to ensure that when users pass nil to …

…methods where that isn't appropriate, instead of NoMethodError? and the name of some method used by the framework users will see a message explaining what type of object was expected. Only active in test and development environments by default #1209 [Michael Koziarski]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1454 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

railties/CHANGELOG

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 *SVN*
 
+* Added a 'whiny nil' that's aim to ensure that when users pass nil to methods where that isn't appropriate, instead of NoMethodError? and the name of some method used by the framework users will see a message explaining what type of object was expected. Only active in test and development environments by default #1209 [Michael Koziarski]
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 * Fixed the test_helper.rb to be safe for requiring controllers from multiple spots, like app/controllers/article_controller.rb and app/controllers/admin/article_controller.rb, without reloading the environment twice #1390 [Nicholas Seckar]
 
 * Fixed Webrick to escape + characters in URL's the same way that lighttpd and apache do #1397 [Nicholas Seckar]

railties/environments/development.rb

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+require 'active_support/whiny_nil'
+
 Dependencies.mechanism                             = :load
 ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local = true
 ActionController::Base.perform_caching             = false

railties/environments/test.rb

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+require 'active_support/whiny_nil'
+
 Dependencies.mechanism                             = :require
 ActionController::Base.consider_all_requests_local = true
 ActionController::Base.perform_caching             = false