I submitted a patch that changes application.rb to
application_controller.rb. The patch fixes the problem where a
controller referenced before 'require "application"' will cause an
exception.
The patch causes no new test failures and I've also manually tested it
by creating a sample application and running it, running script/
console and running script/performance/request.
ticket:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10570