Stop ActiveRecord saving a serialized column even if not changed
问题 This is very similar to Rails partial updates problem with hashes , but the question has not really been answered IMHO. The problem is this: I have a model with a serialized column: class Import < AR::Base serialize :data In my case, this data will, and should, not change after the first save/creation of the model. So I want to disable the feature of AR that always saves serialized columns (which is normally a good idea, as it can't detect those changes). I want to disable the saving because