Remove the country_select helper.

We're in no position to mediate disputes on this matter, and the previous change to use ISO 3166 has offended just as many people as the ad-hoc list did.

If you want the old list back you can install the plugin:

ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/country_select.git

actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers.rb

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ module ClassMethods
     include CaptureHelper
     include DateHelper
     include DebugHelper
-    include FormCountryHelper
     include FormHelper
     include FormOptionsHelper
     include FormTagHelper

actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_country_helper.rb

-require 'action_view/helpers/form_options_helper'
-
-module ActionView
-  module Helpers
-    module FormCountryHelper
-
-      # Return select and option tags for the given object and method, using country_options_for_select to generate the list of option tags.
-      def country_select(object, method, priority_countries = nil, options = {}, html_options = {})
-        InstanceTag.new(object, method, self, options.delete(:object)).to_country_select_tag(priority_countries, options, html_options)
-      end
-
-      # Returns a string of option tags for pretty much any country in the world. Supply a country name as +selected+ to
-      # have it marked as the selected option tag. You can also supply an array of countries as +priority_countries+, so
-      # that they will be listed above the rest of the (long) list.
-      #
-      # NOTE: Only the option tags are returned, you have to wrap this call in a regular HTML select tag.
-      def country_options_for_select(selected = nil, priority_countries = nil)
-        country_options = ""
-
-        if priority_countries
-          country_options += options_for_select(priority_countries, selected)
-          country_options += "<option value=\"\" disabled=\"disabled\">-------------</option>\n"
-        end
-
-        return country_options + options_for_select(COUNTRIES, selected)
-      end
-      
-      private
-
-        # All the countries included in the country_options output.
-        COUNTRIES = ["Afghanistan", "Aland Islands", "Albania", "Algeria", "American Samoa", "Andorra", "Angola",
-          "Anguilla", "Antarctica", "Antigua And Barbuda", "Argentina", "Armenia", "Aruba", "Australia", "Austria",
-          "Azerbaijan", "Bahamas", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Barbados", "Belarus", "Belgium", "Belize", "Benin",
-          "Bermuda", "Bhutan", "Bolivia", "Bosnia and Herzegowina", "Botswana", "Bouvet Island", "Brazil",
-          "British Indian Ocean Territory", "Brunei Darussalam", "Bulgaria", "Burkina Faso", "Burundi", "Cambodia",
-          "Cameroon", "Canada", "Cape Verde", "Cayman Islands", "Central African Republic", "Chad", "Chile", "China",
-          "Christmas Island", "Cocos (Keeling) Islands", "Colombia", "Comoros", "Congo",
-          "Congo, the Democratic Republic of the", "Cook Islands", "Costa Rica", "Cote d'Ivoire", "Croatia", "Cuba",
-          "Cyprus", "Czech Republic", "Denmark", "Djibouti", "Dominica", "Dominican Republic", "Ecuador", "Egypt",
-          "El Salvador", "Equatorial Guinea", "Eritrea", "Estonia", "Ethiopia", "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)",
-          "Faroe Islands", "Fiji", "Finland", "France", "French Guiana", "French Polynesia",
-          "French Southern Territories", "Gabon", "Gambia", "Georgia", "Germany", "Ghana", "Gibraltar", "Greece", "Greenland", "Grenada", "Guadeloupe", "Guam", "Guatemala", "Guernsey", "Guinea",
-          "Guinea-Bissau", "Guyana", "Haiti", "Heard and McDonald Islands", "Holy See (Vatican City State)",
-          "Honduras", "Hong Kong", "Hungary", "Iceland", "India", "Indonesia", "Iran, Islamic Republic of", "Iraq",
-          "Ireland", "Isle of Man", "Israel", "Italy", "Jamaica", "Japan", "Jersey", "Jordan", "Kazakhstan", "Kenya",
-          "Kiribati", "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of", "Korea, Republic of", "Kuwait", "Kyrgyzstan",
-          "Lao People's Democratic Republic", "Latvia", "Lebanon", "Lesotho", "Liberia", "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya",
-          "Liechtenstein", "Lithuania", "Luxembourg", "Macao", "Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of",
-          "Madagascar", "Malawi", "Malaysia", "Maldives", "Mali", "Malta", "Marshall Islands", "Martinique",
-          "Mauritania", "Mauritius", "Mayotte", "Mexico", "Micronesia, Federated States of", "Moldova, Republic of",
-          "Monaco", "Mongolia", "Montenegro", "Montserrat", "Morocco", "Mozambique", "Myanmar", "Namibia", "Nauru",
-          "Nepal", "Netherlands", "Netherlands Antilles", "New Caledonia", "New Zealand", "Nicaragua", "Niger",
-          "Nigeria", "Niue", "Norfolk Island", "Northern Mariana Islands", "Norway", "Oman", "Pakistan", "Palau",
-          "Palestinian Territory, Occupied", "Panama", "Papua New Guinea", "Paraguay", "Peru", "Philippines",
-          "Pitcairn", "Poland", "Portugal", "Puerto Rico", "Qatar", "Reunion", "Romania", "Russian Federation",
-          "Rwanda", "Saint Barthelemy", "Saint Helena", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia",
-          "Saint Pierre and Miquelon", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "Samoa", "San Marino",
-          "Sao Tome and Principe", "Saudi Arabia", "Senegal", "Serbia", "Seychelles", "Sierra Leone", "Singapore",
-          "Slovakia", "Slovenia", "Solomon Islands", "Somalia", "South Africa",
-          "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands", "Spain", "Sri Lanka", "Sudan", "Suriname",
-          "Svalbard and Jan Mayen", "Swaziland", "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Syrian Arab Republic",
-          "Taiwan, Province of China", "Tajikistan", "Tanzania, United Republic of", "Thailand", "Timor-Leste",
-          "Togo", "Tokelau", "Tonga", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Tunisia", "Turkey", "Turkmenistan",
-          "Turks and Caicos Islands", "Tuvalu", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "United Arab Emirates", "United Kingdom",
-          "United States", "United States Minor Outlying Islands", "Uruguay", "Uzbekistan", "Vanuatu", "Venezuela",
-          "Viet Nam", "Virgin Islands, British", "Virgin Islands, U.S.", "Wallis and Futuna", "Western Sahara",
-          "Yemen", "Zambia", "Zimbabwe"] unless const_defined?("COUNTRIES")
-    end
-    
-    class InstanceTag #:nodoc:
-      include FormCountryHelper
-
-      def to_country_select_tag(priority_countries, options, html_options)
-        html_options = html_options.stringify_keys
-        add_default_name_and_id(html_options)
-        value = value(object)
-        content_tag("select",
-          add_options(
-            country_options_for_select(value, priority_countries),
-            options, value
-          ), html_options
-        )
-      end
-    end
-
-    class FormBuilder
-      def country_select(method, priority_countries = nil, options = {}, html_options = {})
-        @template.country_select(@object_name, method, priority_countries, objectify_options(options), @default_options.merge(html_options))
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
\ No newline at end of file

actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb

@@ -324,9 +324,6 @@ def option_value_selected?(value, selected)
             value == selected
           end
         end
-
-        # All the countries included in the country_options output.
-        COUNTRIES = ActiveSupport::Deprecation::DeprecatedConstantProxy.new 'COUNTRIES', 'ActionView::Helpers::FormCountryHelper::COUNTRIES'
     end
 
     class InstanceTag #:nodoc: