Fixing numeric attrs when set to same negative value

This bug occurs when an attribute of an ActiveRecord model is an
ActiveRecord::Type::Integer type or a ActiveRecord::Type::Decimal type (or any
other type that includes the ActiveRecord::Type::Numeric module. When the value
of the attribute is negative and is set to the same negative value, it is marked
as changed.

Take the following example of a Person model with the integer attribute age:

    class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
      # age          :integer(4)
    end

The following will produce the error:

    person = Person.new(age: -1)
    person.age = -1
    person.changes
    => { "age" => [-1, -1] }
    person.age_changed?
    => true

The problematic line is here:

    module ActiveRecord
      module Type
        module Numeric
          ...

          def non_numeric_string?(value)
            # 'wibble'.to_i will give zero, we want to make sure
            # that we aren't marking int zero to string zero as
            # changed.
            value.to_s !~ /\A\d+\.?\d*\z/
          end
        end
      end
    end

The regex match doesn't accept numbers with a leading '-'.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/type/numeric.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/type/numeric.rb
index fa43266504..674f996f38 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/type/numeric.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/type/numeric.rb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
         # 'wibble'.to_i will give zero, we want to make sure
         # that we aren't marking int zero to string zero as
         # changed.
-        value.to_s !~ /\A\d+\.?\d*\z/
+        value.to_s !~ /\A-?\d+\.?\d*\z/
       end
     end
   end