extend AR to handle legacy fieldname casing

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Hello all,

I'm hoping one of you has already done this, or just has the metaprogramming-fu that I don't.

I want to extend ActiveRecord::Base#method_missing to try matching the columns with downcase if the case-sensitive match fails.

For instance, fieldname 'LotsaLuck' fails if accessed with Mymodel.lotsaluck NoMethodError: undefined method `lotsaluck' for #<Mymodel:0x58160dc>

I think maybe the alternative is a way to switch on downcasing in the connection_adapter when it gets the columns collection ?

Thanks for any help you may have!

Peter Fitzgibbons