HStore Field not initialized as Hash

[frugardc]

Installed as directed, column comes up as hstore in my pg database after migration run, but the column is not initialized as a hash. MRI 1.9.3, Rails 3.2.6

class MaintenanceNotification < ActiveRecord::Base
    serialize :data, ActiveRecord::Coders::Hstore
    attr_accessible :circuit_id, :customer, :data, :maintenance_id,:sent,:start_time,:end_time

m = MaintenanceNotification.new
 => #<MaintenanceNotification id: nil, data: nil, circuit_id: nil, maintenance_id: nil,      customer: nil, sent: nil, start_time: nil, end_time: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> 
    1.9.3p194 :002 > m.data
 => nil 

[mockdeep]

Yeah, thought this commit changed it, but no such luck: 0b66d8b

[mockdeep]

Also tried adding execute("ALTER TABLE students ALTER COLUMN data SET DEFAULT hstore(array[]::varchar[])") to my migration, but it's still nil. From here: #22

[mockdeep]

Adding serialize :data, ActiveRecord::Coders::Hstore to my model fixed this.

[frugardc]

The default was not added for me as part of the migrate script. I ran manually on the db to see if that fixed the issue. Doesn't seem to have.

[mockdeep]

Yeah, it doesn't add it to the database. The serializer assigns an empty hash to it on the fly.