rails/rails — comment on commit 6e46b3bc27c57cf50cf43d0cbe1344956e5998f3
File: activerecord/test/cases/fixtures_test.rb line 785
By tenderlove:

I'd rather it's returned as a string for a couple reasons: 1) symbols are not GC'd, 2) this is data that describes structure, domain data. Basically [what Josh says](http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/4/19/symbols-are-not-pretty-strings).