Coerce strings when reading attributes.

activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

+*   Coerce strings when reading attributes.
+    Fixes #10485.
+
+    Example:
+
+        book = Book.new(title: 12345)
+        book.save!
+        book.title # => "12345"
+
+    *Yves Senn*
+
 *   Deprecate half-baked support for PostgreSQL range values with excluding beginnings.
     We currently map PostgreSQL ranges to Ruby ranges. This conversion is not fully
     possible because the Ruby range does not support excluded beginnings.

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/column.rb

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def type_cast_for_write(value)
         end
       end
 
-      # Casts value (which is a String) to an appropriate instance.
+      # Casts value to an appropriate instance.
       def type_cast(value)
         return nil if value.nil?
         return coder.load(value) if encoded?
@@ -95,7 +95,13 @@ def type_cast(value)
         klass = self.class
 
         case type
-        when :string, :text        then value
+        when :string, :text
+          case value
+          when TrueClass; "1"
+          when FalseClass; "0"
+          else
+            value.to_s
+          end
         when :integer              then klass.value_to_integer(value)
         when :float                then value.to_f
         when :decimal              then klass.value_to_decimal(value)

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb

@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ def type_cast(value)
           end
         end
 
+        class Text < Type
+          def type_cast(value)
+            return if value.nil?
+
+            value.to_s
+          end
+        end
+
         class Bit < Type
           def type_cast(value)
             if String === value
@@ -329,7 +337,7 @@ def self.registered_type?(name)
         alias_type    'oid',  'int2'
 
         register_type 'numeric', OID::Decimal.new
-        register_type 'text', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'text', OID::Text.new
         alias_type 'varchar', 'text'
         alias_type 'char', 'text'
         alias_type 'bpchar', 'text'
@@ -355,13 +363,13 @@ def self.registered_type?(name)
         register_type 'date', OID::Date.new
         register_type 'time', OID::Time.new
 
-        register_type 'path', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'path', OID::Text.new
         register_type 'point', OID::Point.new
-        register_type 'polygon', OID::Identity.new
-        register_type 'circle', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'polygon', OID::Text.new
+        register_type 'circle', OID::Text.new
         register_type 'hstore', OID::Hstore.new
         register_type 'json', OID::Json.new
-        register_type 'ltree', OID::Identity.new
+        register_type 'ltree', OID::Text.new
 
         register_type 'cidr', OID::Cidr.new
         alias_type 'inet', 'cidr'

activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb

@@ -555,6 +555,24 @@ def test_accessing_cached_attributes_caches_the_converted_values_and_nothing_els
     end
   end
 
+  def test_converted_values_are_returned_after_assignment
+    developer = Developer.new(name: 1337, salary: "50000")
+
+    assert_equal "50000", developer.salary_before_type_cast
+    assert_equal 1337, developer.name_before_type_cast
+
+    assert_equal 50000, developer.salary
+    assert_equal "1337", developer.name
+
+    developer.save!
+
+    assert_equal "50000", developer.salary_before_type_cast
+    assert_equal 1337, developer.name_before_type_cast
+
+    assert_equal 50000, developer.salary
+    assert_equal "1337", developer.name
+  end
+
   def test_write_nil_to_time_attributes
     in_time_zone "Pacific Time (US & Canada)" do
       record = @target.new