Rails - Sep 2012 - How to remove column without downtime with ActiveRecord > 3.0?

Removing columns from tables while running application with ActiveRecord 
causes errors, because ActiveRecord caches column names.

Workaround for ActiveRecord up to 3.0.9 was to override #columns method in 
the model and filter out deprecated column names before migration 
(basically - hide these columns from AR). This worked because all column 
name related methods were based on #columns call

In ActiveRecord starting with 3.1.0 caching of table structures is moved to 
ConnectionPool, and all column name related values (e.g. coluumns_hash) are 
cached independently.

Is there any way (other than deep-hack of concrete adapters) to achieve 
safe column drop in ActiveRecord > 3.0 ?

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