Mysql adapter : "as" in the query

Rails
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Migrating here from SQL Server to mysql; found something that “worked”
under SQL Server (with freetds / odbc) but not mysql.

cat db/migrate/005_create_noodles.rb

class CreateNoodles < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :noodles do |t|

  t.integer :girth
end

end

def self.down
drop_table :noodles
end
end

rake db:migrate

script/console>> Noodle.create(:girth => 4)

=> #<Noodle id: 1, girth: 4>

Noodle.find(:first, :select => ‘girth as width’).width
=> “4”

_.class
=> String

Under SQL Server would get “Fixnum” instead of String. Fixnum makes more
sense.

I get the impression the Mysql::Result#each_hash method is responsible.

What should it be?

Stephan