Rails 3.2 Postgres Save Error “ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR: Syntax error near 'T' at position 5”

Question

My app has started throwing errors when I try to save a particular class to the database. I\'m not sure exactly what caused this to start happening - I\'ve been having all

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem, on Rails 3.2. If you're not using Rails trunk (working towards 4.0), it doesn't understand the hstore natively - you need to define a serialization coder (which is provided by the activerecord-postgres-hstore gem), like so:

class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :data, ActiveRecord::Coders::Hstore
end