diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
index 37d0ca53e44717d2d0680d8157de9b4978f9ebd5..5a9b781b72832a7afb8c20602f35f97f1cd8150b 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Fix column type detection while loading fixtures.  Closes #7987 [roderickvd]
+
 * Document deep eager includes.  #6267 [Josh Susser, Dan Manges]
 
 * Document warning that associations names shouldn't be reserved words.  #4378 [murphy@cYcnus.de, Josh Susser]
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
index 96fd0c57af2794fac1f2534be0fe1a103c33676f..c837fd7b50db4d1112b8c6bb8bf6f5b2cde6715a 100755
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/fixtures.rb
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ def value_list
     klass = @class_name.constantize rescue nil
 
     list = @fixture.inject([]) do |fixtures, (key, value)|
-      col = klass.columns_hash[key] if klass.kind_of?(ActiveRecord::Base)
+      col = klass.columns_hash[key] if klass.respond_to?(:ancestors) && klass.ancestors.include?(ActiveRecord::Base)
       fixtures << ActiveRecord::Base.connection.quote(value, col).gsub('[^\]\\n', "\n").gsub('[^\]\\r', "\r")
     end
     list * ', '
diff --git a/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb b/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
index 7ccfc9be86902ea683e0fef7b6195dbd00714b64..d9973683cc738fe9193e0b23ac93490d85b071a4 100755
--- a/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/fixtures_test.rb
@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@ class FixturesTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   self.use_instantiated_fixtures = true
   self.use_transactional_fixtures = false
 
-  fixtures :topics, :developers, :accounts, :tasks, :categories, :funny_jokes
+  fixtures :topics, :developers, :accounts, :tasks, :categories, :funny_jokes, :binaries
 
-  FIXTURES = %w( accounts companies customers
+  FIXTURES = %w( accounts binaries companies customers
                  developers developers_projects entrants
                  movies projects subscribers topics tasks )
   MATCH_ATTRIBUTE_NAME = /[a-zA-Z][-_\w]*/
 
+  BINARY_FIXTURE_PATH = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/flowers.jpg'
+
   def test_clean_fixtures
     FIXTURES.each do |name|
       fixtures = nil
@@ -100,7 +102,6 @@ def test_insert_with_datetime
     assert first
   end
 
-
   def test_bad_format
     path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'fixtures', 'bad_fixtures')
     Dir.entries(path).each do |file|
@@ -174,7 +175,6 @@ def test_omap_fixtures
     end
   end
 
-
   def test_yml_file_in_subdirectory
     assert_equal(categories(:sub_special_1).name, "A special category in a subdir file")
     assert_equal(categories(:sub_special_1).class, SpecialCategory)
@@ -185,7 +185,11 @@ def test_subsubdir_file_with_arbitrary_name
     assert_equal(categories(:sub_special_3).class, SpecialCategory)
   end
 
-
+  def test_binary_in_fixtures
+    assert_equal 1, @binaries.size
+    data = File.read(BINARY_FIXTURE_PATH).freeze
+    assert_equal data, @flowers.data
+  end
 end
 
 if Account.connection.respond_to?(:reset_pk_sequence!)