Validates_uniqueness_of and MySQL enum type

Rails
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I tried to check validates_uniqueness_of for a MySql enum type column
with a scope given, like this:

validates_uniqueness_of :phone_type, :scope => :user_id

And It didn’t work. When I check the SQL statement for doing this
validation, it is like this:

SELECT phone_numbers.id FROM phone_numbers WHERE
(phone_numbers.phone_type = BINARY ‘’ AND phone_numbers.user_id
= 23) LIMIT 1

phone_type was set to be “Home”. If I try validates_uniqueness_of on
any other columns. it works fine. Could some please highlight me
what’s going on? Thanks