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-rw-r--r--activerecord/CHANGELOG.md1
-rw-r--r--activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb7
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
index befc5c9999..e53d688ad9 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
## Rails 4.0.0 (unreleased) ##
+
* Added custom coders support for ActiveRecord::Store. Now you can set
your custom coder like this:
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
index a67d6a2288..ce2ea85ef9 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ module ActiveRecord
# You can set custom coder to encode/decode your serialized attributes to/from different formats.
# JSON, YAML, Marshal are supported out of the box. Generally it can be any wrapper that provides +load+ and +dump+.
#
+ # String keys should be used for direct access to virtual attributes because of most of the coders do not
+ # distinguish symbols and strings as keys.
+ #
# Examples:
#
# class User < ActiveRecord::Base
@@ -20,10 +23,8 @@ module ActiveRecord
# end
#
# u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
- # u.color # Accessor stored attribute
+ # u.color # Accessor stored attribute
# u.settings['country'] = 'Denmark' # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor
- # String keys should be used for direct access to virtual attributes because of most of the coders do not
- # distinguish symbols and strings as keys.
#
# # Add additional accessors to an existing store through store_accessor
# class SuperUser < User