James Ravn

Here's an updated patch that does the rescue during class definition or "compile time". I also expanded the test class so the pure ruby transliterate method is ...

Patch attached.

Note: It will use the built in transliterate after the test is run, which I don't think is a problem. I'd prefer if the test reloaded inflector....

Let's try that again (why make it hard to paste diffs?):

     # Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
     def transliterate(string)
-  ...

As a quick fix, you can do something like this in activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb:

 # Replaces accented characters with their ascii equivalents.
...