testing new_record? and converting to an attribute

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/session_store.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/session_store.rb
index 5de812962a..17f09d64b0 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/session_store.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/session_store.rb
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ module ActiveRecord
         end
       end
 
-      attr_reader :session_id
+      attr_reader :session_id, :new_record
+      alias :new_record? :new_record
+
       attr_writer :data
 
       # Look for normal and marshaled data, self.find_by_session_id's way of
@@ -244,10 +246,6 @@ module ActiveRecord
         @new_record     = @marshaled_data.nil?
       end
 
-      def new_record?
-        @new_record
-      end
-
       # Lazy-unmarshal session state.
       def data
         unless @data
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/session_store/sql_bypass.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/session_store/sql_bypass.rb
index 5484c34f7d..cea5e4eabe 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/session_store/sql_bypass.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/session_store/sql_bypass.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ module ActiveRecord
         SqlBypass.drop_table!
         assert !Session.table_exists?
       end
+
+      def test_new_record?
+        s = SqlBypass.new :data => 'foo', :session_id => 10
+        assert s.new_record?, 'this is a new record!'
+      end
     end
   end
 end