diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b494674c91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+class CGI #:nodoc:
+  # Add @request.env['RAW_POST_DATA'] for the vegans.
+  module QueryExtension
+    # Initialize the data from the query.
+    #
+    # Handles multipart forms (in particular, forms that involve file uploads).
+    # Reads query parameters in the @params field, and cookies into @cookies.
+    def initialize_query()
+      if boundary = multipart_form_boundary
+        @multipart = true
+        @params = read_multipart(boundary, Integer(env_table['CONTENT_LENGTH']))
+      else
+        @multipart = false
+        @params = CGI::parse(read_query_params)
+      end
+    end
+
+    private
+      def multipart_form_boundary
+        multipart_form_boundary_re = %r|\Amultipart/form-data.*boundary=\"?([^\";,]+)\"?|n # " ruby-mode
+        
+        if env_table['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'
+          multipart_form_boundary_re.match(env_table['CONTENT_TYPE']).to_a.pop
+        end
+      end
+
+      def read_query_params
+        case env_table['REQUEST_METHOD']
+          when 'GET', 'HEAD'
+            if defined? MOD_RUBY
+              Apache::request.args or ''
+            else
+              env_table['QUERY_STRING'] or ''
+            end
+          when 'POST'
+            stdinput.binmode if stdinput.respond_to?(:binmode)
+            content = stdinput.read(Integer(env_table['CONTENT_LENGTH'])) or ''
+            env_table['RAW_POST_DATA'] = content.freeze
+          else
+            read_from_cmdline
+          end
+      end
+  end # module QueryExtension
+end
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diff --git a/actionpack/test/controller/raw_post_test.rb b/actionpack/test/controller/raw_post_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98dc7f6ba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actionpack/test/controller/raw_post_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+require 'test/unit'
+require 'cgi'
+require 'stringio'
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/raw_post_data_fix'
+
+class RawPostDataTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  def setup
+    ENV['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'POST'
+    ENV['CONTENT_TYPE'] = ''
+    ENV['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = '0'
+  end
+
+  def test_raw_post_data
+    process_raw "action=create_customer&full_name=David%20Heinemeier%20Hansson&customerId=1"
+  end
+
+  private
+    def process_raw(query_string)
+      old_stdin = $stdin
+      begin
+        $stdin = StringIO.new(query_string.dup)
+        ENV['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = $stdin.size.to_s
+        CGI.new
+        assert_not_nil ENV['RAW_POST_DATA']
+        assert ENV['RAW_POST_DATA'].frozen?
+        assert_equal query_string, ENV['RAW_POST_DATA']
+      ensure
+        $stdin = old_stdin
+      end
+    end
+end
diff --git a/activerecord/test/column_alias_test.rb b/activerecord/test/column_alias_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06a0a7f3b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activerecord/test/column_alias_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+require 'abstract_unit'
+require 'fixtures/topic'
+
+class TestColumnAlias < Test::Unit::TestCase
+
+  def test_column_alias
+    topic = Topic.find(1)
+    records = topic.connection.select_all("SELECT id AS pk FROM topics LIMIT 1")
+    assert_equal(records[0].keys[0], "pk")
+  end
+  
+end
diff --git a/pushgems.rb b/pushgems.rb
index a754b56647..c8ccf5d474 100755
--- a/pushgems.rb
+++ b/pushgems.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 build_number = `svn log -q -rhead http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails`.scan(/r([0-9]*)/).first.first.to_i
 
-%w( actionmailer actionpack activerecord railties ).each do |pkg|
+(%w( actionmailer actionpack activerecord railties ) - ARGV).each do |pkg|
   puts "Pushing: #{pkg} (#{build_number})"
   `cd #{pkg} && PKG_BUILD=#{build_number} rake pgem && cd ..`
 end
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