Remove active_support/json/variable was deprecated.

activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoding.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/to_json'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/module/delegation'
-require 'active_support/json/variable'
 
 require 'bigdecimal'
 require 'active_support/core_ext/big_decimal/conversions' # for #to_s

activesupport/lib/active_support/json/variable.rb

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-require 'active_support/deprecation'
-
-module ActiveSupport
-  module JSON
-    # Deprecated: A string that returns itself as its JSON-encoded form.
-    class Variable < String
-      def initialize(*args)
-        message = 'ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable is deprecated and will be removed in Rails 4.1. ' \
-                  'For your own custom JSON literals, define #as_json and #encode_json yourself.'
-        ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn message
-        super
-      end
-
-      def as_json(options = nil) self end #:nodoc:
-      def encode_json(encoder) self end #:nodoc:
-    end
-  end
-end

activesupport/test/json/encoding_test.rb

@@ -96,13 +96,6 @@ class TestJSONEncoding < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     end
   end
 
-  def test_json_variable
-    assert_deprecated do
-      assert_equal ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('foo'), 'foo'
-      assert_equal ActiveSupport::JSON::Variable.new('alert("foo")'), 'alert("foo")'
-    end
-  end
-
   def test_hash_encoding
     assert_equal %({\"a\":\"b\"}), ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(:a => :b)
     assert_equal %({\"a\":1}), ActiveSupport::JSON.encode('a' => 1)