From acc33a56e726367d4f0eaee540adc9081ef172bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charlie Sharpsteen <source@sharpsteen.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:52:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow Formula.canonical_name to use Pathname objects

---
 Library/Homebrew/formula.rb | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
index f10bffa865..9b3c0ac5f3 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb
@@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ class Formula
   end
 
   def self.canonical_name name
+    # Cast pathnames to strings.
+    name = name.to_s if name.kind_of? Pathname
+
     formula_with_that_name = HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY+"Library/Formula/#{name}.rb"
     possible_alias = HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY+"Library/Aliases/#{name}"
     possible_cached_formula = HOMEBREW_CACHE_FORMULA+"#{name}.rb"