serialize fails on subclass

activerecord/test/cases/base_test.rb

@@ -1233,6 +1233,26 @@ class BasicsTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     assert_equal(myobj, topic.content)
   end
 
+  def test_serialized_attribute_in_base_class
+    Topic.serialize("content", Hash)
+
+    hash = { 'content1' => 'value1', 'content2' => 'value2' }
+    important_topic = ImportantTopic.create("content" => hash)
+    assert_equal(hash, important_topic.content)
+
+    important_topic.reload
+    assert_equal(hash, important_topic.content)
+  end
+
+  def test_serialized_attribute_declared_in_subclass
+    hash = { 'important1' => 'value1', 'important2' => 'value2' }
+    important_topic = ImportantTopic.create("important" => hash)
+    assert_equal(hash, important_topic.important)
+
+    important_topic.reload
+    assert_equal(hash, important_topic.important)
+  end
+
   def test_serialized_time_attribute
     myobj = Time.local(2008,1,1,1,0)
     topic = Topic.create("content" => myobj).reload
@@ -1671,7 +1691,7 @@ class BasicsTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
 
   def test_inspect_instance
     topic = topics(:first)
-    assert_equal %(#<Topic id: 1, title: "The First Topic", author_name: "David", author_email_address: "david@loudthinking.com", written_on: "#{topic.written_on.to_s(:db)}", bonus_time: "#{topic.bonus_time.to_s(:db)}", last_read: "#{topic.last_read.to_s(:db)}", content: "Have a nice day", approved: false, replies_count: 1, parent_id: nil, parent_title: nil, type: nil, group: nil, created_at: "#{topic.created_at.to_s(:db)}", updated_at: "#{topic.updated_at.to_s(:db)}">), topic.inspect
+    assert_equal %(#<Topic id: 1, title: "The First Topic", author_name: "David", author_email_address: "david@loudthinking.com", written_on: "#{topic.written_on.to_s(:db)}", bonus_time: "#{topic.bonus_time.to_s(:db)}", last_read: "#{topic.last_read.to_s(:db)}", content: "Have a nice day", important: nil, approved: false, replies_count: 1, parent_id: nil, parent_title: nil, type: nil, group: nil, created_at: "#{topic.created_at.to_s(:db)}", updated_at: "#{topic.updated_at.to_s(:db)}">), topic.inspect
   end
 
   def test_inspect_new_instance

activerecord/test/cases/reflection_test.rb

@@ -36,25 +36,25 @@ class ReflectionTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
 
   def test_read_attribute_names
     assert_equal(
-      %w( id title author_name author_email_address bonus_time written_on last_read content group approved replies_count parent_id parent_title type created_at updated_at ).sort,
+      %w( id title author_name author_email_address bonus_time written_on last_read content important group approved replies_count parent_id parent_title type created_at updated_at ).sort,
       @first.attribute_names.sort
     )
   end
 
   def test_columns
-    assert_equal 16, Topic.columns.length
+    assert_equal 17, Topic.columns.length
   end
 
   def test_columns_are_returned_in_the_order_they_were_declared
     column_names = Topic.columns.map { |column| column.name }
-    assert_equal %w(id title author_name author_email_address written_on bonus_time last_read content approved replies_count parent_id parent_title type group created_at updated_at), column_names
+    assert_equal %w(id title author_name author_email_address written_on bonus_time last_read content important approved replies_count parent_id parent_title type group created_at updated_at), column_names
   end
 
   def test_content_columns
     content_columns        = Topic.content_columns
     content_column_names   = content_columns.map {|column| column.name}
-    assert_equal 12, content_columns.length
-    assert_equal %w(title author_name author_email_address written_on bonus_time last_read content group approved parent_title created_at updated_at).sort, content_column_names.sort
+    assert_equal 13, content_columns.length
+    assert_equal %w(title author_name author_email_address written_on bonus_time last_read content important group approved parent_title created_at updated_at).sort, content_column_names.sort
   end
 
   def test_column_string_type_and_limit

activerecord/test/models/topic.rb

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
     def after_create_for_transaction; end
 end
 
+class ImportantTopic < Topic
+  serialize :important, Hash
+end
+
 module Web
   class Topic < ActiveRecord::Base
     has_many :replies, :dependent => :destroy, :foreign_key => "parent_id", :class_name => 'Web::Reply'

activerecord/test/schema/schema.rb

@@ -607,8 +607,10 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
     # Oracle SELECT WHERE clause which causes many unit test failures
     if current_adapter?(:OracleAdapter)
       t.string   :content, :limit => 4000
+      t.string   :important, :limit => 4000
     else
       t.text     :content
+      t.text     :important
     end
     t.boolean  :approved, :default => true
     t.integer  :replies_count, :default => 0