Rails's form helpers use the `$attr_before_type_cast` method where
available, and this value only appears to be updated on assignment, not
when the object is mutated in some other way:

    [1] pry(main)> mr = MergeRequest.new
    => #<MergeRequest:0x007fcf28395d88 ...>
    [2] pry(main)> mr.description = 'foo'
    => "foo"
    [3] pry(main)> mr.description << ' bar'
    => "foo bar"
    [4] pry(main)> mr.description
    => "foo bar"
    [5] pry(main)> mr.description_before_type_cast
    => "foo"
    [6] pry(main)> mr.description += ' bar'
    => "foo bar bar"
    [7] pry(main)> mr.description_before_type_cast
    => "foo bar bar"