I think I'd like to consider moving strip_attributes to use thenormalizes API, which would also solve for this. See#67.

However, this will likely require Rails 8.1 (rails/rails#53887)

In the meantime, redefiningstrip_attributes for your app and/or performing thebefore_save manually like you did is a fine workaround.

If I incorporated thisbefore_save behavior into strip_attributes to support versions prior to Rails 8.1, I'd want to make sure that the stripping normalization only occurred once per#save.

I added code to ensure that stripping normalization isn’t executed twice. I didn’t add a test, as I don’t think it’s necessary, but I’m happy to add one if you think it’s worth it before merging. I can confirm that this PR would prevent several issues on our side but I understand that not many people use.save(validate: false).

If we were already on Rails 8.1, I’d probably just replace the strip_attributes operation with Rails’ built-in normalize.