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+# This is a patch to address the issue in https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine/issues/251
+# where gem 'state_machine' was not working for Rails 4.1
+module StateMachine
+  module Integrations
+     module ActiveModel
+        public :around_validation
+     end
+  end
+end