can't cast ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLServer::Type::Char::Data to varchar

[neongrau]

Getting the error

can't cast ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SQLServer::Type::Char::Data to varchar

when i try to modify or insert a record into a table that has varchar columns, although i'm not sure it's the varchar columns that is causing it.

Googling for the error made me suspect tiny-tds at first but downgrading that did not help.

So i downgraded activerecord-sqlserver-adapter from 4.2.15 insteps until i found that 4.2.10 is the last version working.

[neongrau]

could this be a side effect of the fix introduced by #471 ?

[neongrau]

OK after testing a bit i found that
https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter/pull/491/files
seems to fix this issue.

All i needed to change was Data inheriting from String
class Data < ::String
Then everything worked as expected again.

[metaskills]

Closing this issue as Rails v5 is almost certainly better at this. Please do open a PR or suggest a code change to 4-2-stable if you want too. We still maintain that branch and interested in things that help.