To continue the metaphor, it seems that in their mission to make the meal taste better for the customer they neglected to clear the poison. Lets not pretend th

To continue the metaphor, it seems that in their mission to make the meal taste better for the customer they neglected to clear the poison. Lets not pretend that Ruby/Rails doesn't make major architectural decisions in favour of ease of use for the user. e.g. if HTTP params weren't automatically marshalled into non-string data structures this bug wouldn't exist.