Extract types which don't require additional typecasting to a method

Database specific adapters shouldn't need to override `type_cast` to
define types which are already in an acceptable state.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/quoting.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/quoting.rb
index 768d2b6d36..f836e60988 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/quoting.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/quoting.rb
@@ -53,16 +53,15 @@ module ActiveRecord
         end
 
         case value
-        when String, ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars
+        when Symbol, ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars
           value.to_s
         when true       then unquoted_true
         when false      then unquoted_false
-        when nil        then nil
         # BigDecimals need to be put in a non-normalized form and quoted.
         when BigDecimal then value.to_s('F')
-        when Numeric    then value
         when Date, Time then quoted_date(value)
-        when Symbol     then value.to_s
+        when *types_which_need_no_typecasting
+          value
         else
           to_type = column ? " to #{column.type}" : ""
           raise TypeError, "can't cast #{value.class}#{to_type}"
@@ -124,6 +123,12 @@ module ActiveRecord
 
         value.to_s(:db)
       end
+
+      private
+
+      def types_which_need_no_typecasting
+        [nil, Numeric, String]
+      end
     end
   end
 end