Removed Hash#from_xml method from HTTParty and added regression spec to make sure HTTParty doesn't foobar ActiveSupport.

lib/core_extensions.rb

@@ -285,11 +285,7 @@ class ToHashParser
   end
 end
 
-class Hash
-  def self.from_xml(xml)
-    ToHashParser.from_xml(xml)
-  end
-  
+class Hash  
   # @return <String> This hash as a query string
   #
   # @example

lib/httparty/request.rb

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ module HTTParty
         return nil if body.nil? or body.empty?
         case format
         when :xml
-          Hash.from_xml(body)
+          ToHashParser.from_xml(body)
         when :json
           JSON.parse(body)
         else

spec/as_buggery_spec.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'spec_helper')
+
+require 'activesupport'
+
+describe Hash do
+  describe "#from_xml" do
+    it "should be able to convert xml with datetimes" do
+      xml =<<EOL
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<created-at type="datetime">2008-12-01T20:00:00-05:00</created-at>
+EOL
+      hsh = Hash.from_xml(xml)
+      hsh["created_at"].should == Time.parse("December 01st, 2008 20:00:00")
+    end
+  end
+end