thoughtbot/paperclip — pull request #1227 by jyurek (2013-04-26 18:28:14+00:00)
Title: Validate the attachment before we attach without calling valid?

Using the ActiveRecord validations is smart in order to lessen load on
the project to develop our own validators, but it's problematic in that
calling `valid?` on the record fires off all the other validations --
including those on fields which may not be set yet because of
mass-assignment. This commit will "pre-validate" the attachment's fields
so that it doesn't process an invalid attachment, but it does so by
running its validations manually on assignment.