Overloading #initialize in a model

I’m using WhinyProtectedAttributes:
http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/whiny-protected-attributes

Say I have this model:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
attribute_accessible :name
end

If I then create a Person with an invalid attribute, an exception is
raised. For example:
Person.new :name => ‘Bob’, :asdf => ‘asdf’

What I’d like to do is, in the Person model, modify the hash of
attributes before they’re set. This is what I came up with:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
attribute_accessible :name

def initialize(attribs = {})
attribs_that_exist = AccessibleModelAttributes.extract self.class,
attribs
super attribs_that_exist
end
end

Am I on the right track? Cheers,
Nick