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“Overriding attributes in form helpers seem to be skipped, and the attributes in the database are used instead. Is there a reason this behavior makes sense?”

Adam will be submitting a patch that allows overriding of attributes. It as mentioned that the existing behavior might be useful in the error case of a pre-coerced form.

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