Parent's Validations lost via Inheritance

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I have some simple models that inherit from a parent (using STI). In all but one case, all of the validations are declared in the parent model like:

  class InfoRequest < ActiveRecord::Base     validates_presence_of :full_name,                           :email_address,                           :phone_number,                           :mailing_address     ... etc ...   end

In one of the child models, I need to add one more validation rule (it has an extra attribute) like so:

  class CreditInfoRequest < InfoRequest     validates_acceptance_of :auth_to_share   end

Except doing this seems to blow away all my validations for this model. If I don't declare any validations in the child model, the parent's validations are inherited and run just fine. But the minute I add validations to the child, both it's *and* the inherited validations fail to run.

What?

BTW, I can get around this by overriding the validate method in the child model but that just bugs me.

Can someone shed some light on this?

-Chris