patched sqlite adapter in spec_helper to fix time attributes in rails 2.0.2 errorneously reporting time attributes as datetime column types

spec/active_record/multiparameter_attributes_spec.rb

@@ -39,11 +39,9 @@ describe ValidatesTimeliness::ActiveRecord::MultiparameterAttributes do
       obj.send(:execute_callstack_for_multiparameter_attributes, @callstack)
     end
    
-    unless RAILS_VER < '2.1' # sqlite doesn't support :time attribute in rails 2.0.x
-      it "should store time string for a time column" do
-        obj.should_receive(:birth_time=).once.with("09:10:11")
-        obj.send(:execute_callstack_for_multiparameter_attributes, @callstack)
-      end
+    it "should store time string for a time column" do
+      obj.should_receive(:birth_time=).once.with("09:10:11")
+      obj.send(:execute_callstack_for_multiparameter_attributes, @callstack)
     end
   end
   

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ else
    require 'ginger' 
   rescue LoadError
   end
-  gem 'rails'
+  if ENV['VERSION']
+    gem 'rails', ENV['VERSION']
+  else
+    gem 'rails'
+  end
 end
 
 RAILS_ROOT = File.dirname(__FILE__)
@@ -41,8 +45,31 @@ if RAILS_VER >= '2.1'
   ActiveRecord::Base.time_zone_aware_attributes = true
 end
 
+
 ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = false
 ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection({:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => ':memory:'})
 
+# patches adapter in rails 2.0 which mistakenly made time attributes map to datetime column typs
+if RAILS_VER < '2.1'
+  ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLiteAdapter.class_eval do
+    def native_database_types #:nodoc:
+      {
+        :primary_key => default_primary_key_type,
+        :string      => { :name => "varchar", :limit => 255 },
+        :text        => { :name => "text" },
+        :integer     => { :name => "integer" },
+        :float       => { :name => "float" },
+        :decimal     => { :name => "decimal" },
+        :datetime    => { :name => "datetime" },
+        :timestamp   => { :name => "datetime" },
+        :time        => { :name => "time" },
+        :date        => { :name => "date" },
+        :binary      => { :name => "blob" },
+        :boolean     => { :name => "boolean" }
+      }
+    end
+  end
+end
+
 require 'schema'
 require 'person'