r1300@iwill: jeremy | 2005-06-13 18:31:29 -0700

 Ticket 1436 - Faster indifferent hash
 r1301@iwill:  jeremy | 2005-06-13 18:45:28 -0700
 Apply, tweak, test.
 r1305@iwill:  jeremy | 2005-06-13 18:50:24 -0700
 Updated changelog.


git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1413 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activesupport/CHANGELOG

 *SVN*
 
+* Increased the speed of indifferent hash access by using Hash#default.  #1436 [Nicholas Seckar]
+
 * Added that "   " is now also blank? (using strip if available)
 
 * Fixed Dependencies so all modules are able to load missing constants #1173 [Nicholas Seckar]

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/indifferent_access.rb

@@ -9,14 +9,8 @@ def initialize(constructor = {})
     end
   end
  
-  alias_method :regular_reader, :[] unless method_defined?(:regular_reader)
-  
-  def [](key)
-    case key
-      when Symbol: regular_reader(key.to_s) || regular_reader(key)
-      when String: regular_reader(key) || regular_reader(key.to_sym)
-      else regular_reader(key)
-    end
+  def default(key)
+    self[key.to_s] if key.is_a?(Symbol)
   end  
 
   alias_method :regular_writer, :[]= unless method_defined?(:regular_writer)