:attributes as field name fails spectacularly

[Peeja]

Adding field :attributes causes an immediate SystemStackError: stack level too deep with one (useless) level of backtrace. (When running Cucumber it's somewhere in Cucumber; when running RSpec it's somewhere in RSpec.)

Probably the right thing to do is to raise a better error sooner, so the user knows what the real problem is.

[zilkey]

I can't reproduce this. Can you post more details (active_hash version, ruby version, exact code snippet etc...)? The following does not error out for me with AcitveHash 0.9.1 on REE:

class SomeClass < ActiveHash::Base
  fields :attributes
end

class SomeClass < ActiveHash::Base
  field :attributes
end

It's still confusing and wrong and I'll fix it, but I'd like to be able to reproduce the issue if possible. Thanks!

[zilkey]

For now I've updated ActiveHash to raise an error when trying to overwrite :attributes. Eventually I'll probably move that into the Rails module, since it's only really there for AR compatibility (POLS).

[Peeja]

Sounds good. I'll try to reproduce it in a clean app.