Hello, In the process of updating from 1.9.2-p180 to 1.9.2-p290 I found that deserialising a serialised attribute as a Hash, which contains other models, stopped working. If I reference the models which are included in the hash prior to deseralising everything works fine. Instantiating the model in p290 without referencing the models raises: ActiveRecord::SerializationTypeMismatch: combination was supposed to be a Hash, but was a String This is on Rails 3.0.10, the database field holding the attribute is large enough to hold the serialised attribute. The models in the hash are Price and a bunch of Shop models. RVM is used to switch between p180 and p290. The gem versions are identical (gemset was copied from p180 to p290). class ListPrice < ActiveRecord::Base ## Referencing the models before deserialising the attribute makes deserialising work in 1.9.2-p290, but is not needed in 1.9.2-p180 Price Shop.all.each {|shop| shop} serialize :combination, Hash ... end Any thoughts on what''s happening here? Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.