create! no longer blows up when no attributes are passed and a :creat…

…e scope is in effect (e.g. foo.bars.create! failed whereas foo.bars.create!({}) didn't.)

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@4348 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activerecord/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* create! no longer blows up when no attributes are passed and a :create scope is in effect (e.g. foo.bars.create! failed whereas foo.bars.create!({}) didn't.) [Jeremy Kemper]
+
 * Call Inflector#demodulize on the class name when eagerly including an STI model.  Closes #5077 [info@loobmedia.com]
 
 * Preserve MySQL boolean column defaults when changing a column in a migration. Closes #5015. [pdcawley@bofh.org.uk] 

activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb

@@ -712,6 +712,7 @@ def create!(attributes = nil)
         if attributes.is_a?(Array)
           attributes.collect { |attr| create!(attr) }
         else
+          attributes ||= {}
           attributes.reverse_merge!(scope(:create)) if scoped?(:create)
 
           object = new(attributes)

activerecord/test/validations_test.rb

@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ def test_invalid_record_exception
     end
   end
 
+  def test_scoped_create_without_attributes
+    Reply.with_scope(:create => {}) do
+      assert_raises(ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid) { Reply.create! }
+    end
+  end
+
   def test_single_error_per_attr_iteration
     r = Reply.new
     r.save