Steve, It's easy to reply to your post, because you have a code example :)

In you case, you will have to duplicate all checks in your custom 
validations, that is not DRY approach.

You will duplicate .to_i in all methods that will depends on age as integer.

On Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:51:42 PM UTC+3, Steve Klabnik wrote:
>
> I think I'd be much more annoyed by this kind of behavior. "Okay, 
> these two things are wrong. Let's fix them. Wait, now it's _still_ 
> wrong, with something totally unrelated?" 
>
> You could fix this case almost trivially by 'if age.to_i < 16', right? 
> I mean, I know you're talking about a more general case, but... 
>

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