I was having this error in Development but not in Test: ActiveRecord::SerializationTypeMismatch: cambiable_attributes was supposed to be a Hash, but was a String Which was the problem? I was using MySQL in Development and SQLite3 in Test. Field ''cambiable_attributes'' was type String in the DB schema and had to be type Text. I changed the data type to Text and it worked well in both environments. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.