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-rw-r--r--lib/arel/engines/sql/primitives.rb10
-rw-r--r--spec/arel/engines/sql/unit/primitives/literal_spec.rb23
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/arel/engines/sql/primitives.rb b/lib/arel/engines/sql/primitives.rb
index f2e8e8dabe..bb3bed78e6 100644
--- a/lib/arel/engines/sql/primitives.rb
+++ b/lib/arel/engines/sql/primitives.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
module Arel
+ class SqlLiteral < String
+ def relation
+ nil
+ end
+
+ def to_sql(formatter = nil)
+ self
+ end
+ end
+
class Attribute
def column
original_relation.column_for(self)
diff --git a/spec/arel/engines/sql/unit/primitives/literal_spec.rb b/spec/arel/engines/sql/unit/primitives/literal_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c7ff1cf879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/arel/engines/sql/unit/primitives/literal_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', '..', '..', '..', 'spec_helper')
+
+module Arel
+ describe SqlLiteral do
+ before do
+ @relation = Table.new(:users)
+ end
+
+ describe '#to_sql' do
+ it "manufactures sql with a literal SQL fragment" do
+ sql = @relation.project(Count.new(SqlLiteral.new("*"))).to_sql
+
+ adapter_is :mysql do
+ sql.should be_like(%Q{SELECT COUNT(*) AS count_id FROM `users`})
+ end
+
+ adapter_is_not :mysql do
+ sql.should be_like(%Q{SELECT COUNT(*) AS count_id FROM "users"})
+ end
+ end
+ end
+ end
+end