Rails - May 2009 - [ActiveRecord] new connector implementation gives 'unknown attribute error'

Hi all,
I''m implementing an activerecord connector on top of a database driver
I wrote (in pure ruby).


The platform of reference is a Mac OSX 10.5 box with the shipped ruby
interpreter version 1.8.6 and activerecord 2.3.2.

Table creation and select queries work; I though have some problems
when I try to perform insertion.

As an example I created a table called ''albums'':

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
    create_table :albums do |table|
        table.column :title, :string
        table.column :performer, :string
    end
end

class Album < ActiveRecord::Base
end

Manual insertion works:
sql>insert into albums (title, performer) values (''a'',
''b'');


+----+--------+--------------+
| id  | title   | performer |
+==+====+=======+
|  1 | a       | b             |
+----+-------+---------------+

Selection seems to be working:

puts Album.find(:first)[''title'']

returns:

"a"


When I try to call the create method though I get an AttributeError:

album = Album.create(:title => ''Black and Blue'', :performer
=> ''The
Rolling Stones'')

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
base.rb:2745:in `attributes='': unknown attribute: title
(ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError)


When enabling Logger I get the following:

Exception occurred during reader method compilation.
Maybe "performer" is not a valid Ruby identifier?
compile error
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
attribute_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG
def "performer";
missing_attribute(''"performer"'', caller) unless
@attributes.has_key?(''"performer"'');
@attributes[''"performer"'']; end
     ^
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/
attribute_methods.rb:211: syntax error, unexpected kEND, expecting
$end
def "performer";
missing_attribute(''"performer"'', caller) unless
@attributes.has_key?(''"performer"'');
@attributes[''"performer"'']; end

[...]

May there be any problem with the implementation of my database
driver? Maybe type conversion?
I googled but I was not able to find any hint to solve this or at
least things I should check.



Kind regards.