Add initial ActiveRecord extension: `active_text_attribute`

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/active_text.rb b/lib/active_text.rb
index e9dfaeefe4..1981abc4c6 100644
--- a/lib/active_text.rb
+++ b/lib/active_text.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ module ActiveText
 
   autoload :Attachable
   autoload :Attachment
+  autoload :Attribute
   autoload :Content
   autoload :Fragment
   autoload :HtmlConversion
diff --git a/lib/active_text/attribute.rb b/lib/active_text/attribute.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..577adde83a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/active_text/attribute.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+module ActiveText
+  module Attribute
+    extend ActiveSupport::Concern
+
+    class_methods do
+      def active_text_attribute(attribute_name)
+        serialize(attribute_name, ActiveText::Content)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/active_text/engine.rb b/lib/active_text/engine.rb
index d9dfff6122..3f076ab321 100644
--- a/lib/active_text/engine.rb
+++ b/lib/active_text/engine.rb
@@ -4,5 +4,11 @@ module ActiveText
   class Engine < Rails::Engine
     isolate_namespace ActiveText
     config.eager_load_namespaces << ActiveText
+
+    initializer "active_text.attribute" do
+      ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
+        include ActiveText::Attribute
+      end
+    end
   end
 end