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Passing custom options to .save rails to skip validation

I'm looking to pass logic to a model when attempting to save in order to disable specific validations.

I know of other solutions such as this one: skip certain validation method in Model This involves putting a temporary attribute on a model which I want to avoid.

I'd rather that has a solution that ends up looking like this:

@my_model.save(:skip_name_validation => true)

^ Is something like this possible in Rails 3?

Solution

  • For sure you can do this by performing a trick like:

    class YourModel
  attr_accessor :skip_name_validation
  validate :validate_method, unless: :skip_name_validation
end

    Now you can use it like:

    @my_model.save(:skip_name_validation => true)