2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
index ebf9a662c3..57bc4da5cc 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ module ActiveRecord
         self
       end
 
+      def remove_column(name)
+        @columns_hash.delete name.to_s
+      end
+
       [:string, :text, :integer, :float, :decimal, :datetime, :timestamp, :time, :date, :binary, :boolean].each do |column_type|
         define_method column_type do |*args|
           options = args.extract_options!
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb
index d3ffee3a8b..50d189d27a 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
 
       def remove_column(table_name, column_name, type = nil, options = {}) #:nodoc:
         alter_table(table_name) do |definition|
-          definition.columns.delete(definition[column_name])
+          definition.remove_column column_name
         end
       end