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-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/serialization.rb2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/serialization.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/serialization.rb
index fd7099e0de..ede8bba922 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/serialization.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/serialization.rb
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ module ActiveRecord
# serialized object must be of that class on assignment and retrieval.
# Otherwise <tt>SerializationTypeMismatch</tt> will be raised.
#
+ # Empty objects as +{}+ in the case of +Hash+ or +[]+ in the case of +Array+ will always be persisted as null.
+ #
# Keep in mind that database adapters handle certain serialization tasks
# for you. For instance: +json+ and +jsonb+ types in PostgreSQL will be
# converted between JSON object/array syntax and Ruby +Hash+ or +Array+