Rgeo, activerecord-postgis-adapter does't fire SQL statements for attributes of type point

Question

So I'm running rgeo with activerecord-postgis-adapter and have a Rails 4 app's db.yml file set up correctly.

But when I set the attributes of a ActiveRecord model like:

Place
 .create(name: 'some name', geom: RGeo::Geographic.spherical_factory(:srid => 4326)
 .point(latitude,longitude)

And then check the SQL INSERT statement it fires, it won't include geom in the INSERT INSERT INTO "places" ("name", "some_attr"..... <- no geom attr being inserted.

If anyone has seen this before and has an idea to what the problem might be, please help thanks!