From c0bb4c6ed2f5a5676569746e7bfd70405346ef8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:35:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] String#start_with? and String#end_with? are not needed for
 Ruby >= 1.8.7, leaves their plural aliases though

---
 .../core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb            | 14 --------------
 activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb     |  8 --------
 2 files changed, 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
index f65bb8f75b..641acf62d0 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/starts_ends_with.rb
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
 class String
-  unless '1.8.7 and up'.respond_to?(:start_with?)
-    # Does the string start with the specified +prefix+?
-    def start_with?(prefix)
-      prefix = prefix.to_s
-      self[0, prefix.length] == prefix
-    end
-
-    # Does the string end with the specified +suffix+?
-    def end_with?(suffix)
-      suffix = suffix.to_s
-      self[-suffix.length, suffix.length] == suffix
-    end
-  end
-
   alias_method :starts_with?, :start_with?
   alias_method :ends_with?, :end_with?
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
index 0f988e78a4..dd9e9e0ebb 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
@@ -185,17 +185,9 @@ class StringInflectionsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert s.starts_with?('hel')
     assert !s.starts_with?('el')
 
-    assert s.start_with?('h')
-    assert s.start_with?('hel')
-    assert !s.start_with?('el')
-
     assert s.ends_with?('o')
     assert s.ends_with?('lo')
     assert !s.ends_with?('el')
-
-    assert s.end_with?('o')
-    assert s.end_with?('lo')
-    assert !s.end_with?('el')
   end
 
   def test_string_squish