Improving handling of mime types, instanciation of documents from the

database, and more dependencies on active_support.

lib/couchrest/support/couchrest.rb

@@ -1,43 +1,6 @@
 
 module CouchRest
 
-  
-  # The CouchRest module methods handle the basic JSON serialization 
-  # and deserialization, as well as query parameters. The module also includes
-  # some helpers for tasks like instantiating a new Database or Server instance.
-  class << self
-
-    # extracted from Extlib
-    #
-    # Constantize tries to find a declared constant with the name specified
-    # in the string. It raises a NameError when the name is not in CamelCase
-    # or is not initialized.
-    #
-    # @example
-    # "Module".constantize #=> Module
-    # "Class".constantize #=> Class
-    def constantize(camel_cased_word)
-      unless /\A(?:::)?([A-Z]\w*(?:::[A-Z]\w*)*)\z/ =~ camel_cased_word
-        raise NameError, "#{camel_cased_word.inspect} is not a valid constant name!"
-      end
-
-      Object.module_eval("::#{$1}", __FILE__, __LINE__)
-    end
-    
-    # extracted from Extlib
-    #    
-    # Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips _id.
-    # Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.
-    #
-    # @example
-    #   "employee_salary" #=> "Employee salary"
-    #   "author_id" #=> "Author"
-    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
-      lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.gsub(/_id$/, "").gsub(/_/, " ").capitalize
-    end
-    
-  end
-
   class Database
 
     alias :delete_old! :delete!