Best practice for removing leading and trailing whitespaces

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I want to remove the leading and training spaces for most of the resources in my rails application

For a new POST request, rails does the xml parsing and passes the params hash to the controller. Some of the parameters have leading and/or trailing whitespaces which are causing problems (e.g. new resources being created rather than using the old ones). I don't want to put the code in all the controllers to strip the whitespaces for different resources/params.

I did find the following pattern:

Is there another better approach to solve this? I was thinking of configuring controller xml parser to remove these whitespaces. Is that possible?

Thanks, -Rakesh

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That looks like the ideal way to do it. This sort of thing belongs in the model as it will stop you from making a mistake that one time you use ./script/console to make that one change....

I'm sure you *could* modify the XML parser, but why? The moment you add another way to access the data you'd have to do it there as well. And what if you have a field that you want to allow white space?

-philip