ActiveRecord: casting and saving

[Dave Burt]

Hi,

How do numbers become Numeric between a call to
ActiveRecord::Base#update_attributes and when the database is hit by
ConnectionAdapters::ConcreteAdapter#update ?

From what I can see,
@record.update_attributes(@params['record'])
sets fields to string values (which you can get using
Base#read_attribute_before_type_cast), and I can't see read_attribute (which
performs a cast) being used on the way to the database.

Can someone explain this?

Cheers,
Dave

 

[Dave Burt]

Sorry, rubyists, it's past my bedtime and this should have gone to the Rails
list... not that you're not allowed to answer but sorry for the
semi-off-topic post.

Cheers,
Dave