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authorAaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>2011-02-01 11:41:14 -0800
committerAaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>2011-02-01 14:25:47 -0800
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serialize can take an arbitrary code object
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diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
index f66b84935c..5310b55a92 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb
@@ -536,7 +536,13 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# serialize :preferences
# end
def serialize(attr_name, class_name = Object)
- serialized_attributes[attr_name.to_s] = Coders::YAMLColumn.new(class_name)
+ coder = if [:load, :dump].all? { |x| class_name.respond_to?(x) }
+ class_name
+ else
+ Coders::YAMLColumn.new(class_name)
+ end
+
+ serialized_attributes[attr_name.to_s] = coder
end
# Guesses the table name (in forced lower-case) based on the name of the class in the