General method to convert from strings to permissions
Small shortcut when permissions is empty
Version bump
Kernel#send is faster than #public_send, at least for MRI 1.8 w/ backports
Version bump
Ensure subclasses dynamically created in tests will trigger .inherited only after they have a name
Make exotic default scopes to not break stuff when generating AR suqueries
Update sequel
Temporary solution for jdbc drivers
Newer sequel doesn't accept 'nil' as argument for 'filter'
Don't rely on driver-specific behavior
jruby mysql drivers

Conflicts:
	spec/app/Gemfile.lock
Don't require debugger on specs
Textually comparing queries doesn't help at all
Synchronization is necessary when testing threads
Cleanup before running specs
Bump version to 0.16.4