ActiveRecord _before_type_cast and validates_numericality_of
Just ran into this today, and did not find an easy solution out there. Lets jump into some code write away.....

The State Of My Development Stack - Issue 1
Things change and move quickly in the Rails world. The technology you used 6 months ago is no longer the newest, shiniest toy in the box. Every 6 months or so I am going to start a journal of the technologies I am using and my thoughts on them. I hope it can provide a record for me to look back on and see how both the technology I use and my use of that technology has changed. I do try to stay current with the Rails world so I also hope this serves as a good representation of some of the current and popular technologies out there, with my own preferences of course. For side project I have going to scratch my own itch I am trying to do all new things. Some of the technologies are