Hi, I''d just like some feedback or suggestions on my patch which adds support for partial updates on serialized attributes: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2764 It stores the serialized yaml into a hash when loading the record. On save it checks the serialized values of the current attributes against the original to see if they changed or not. I created this because our application depends on the serialized attributes of our records not being clobbered. - steve