Overriding presence true in User model

Question

I have the following in my models/user.rb:

validates :company, presence: true
validates :title, presence: true

I have a secondary view where I want to create a user but not require this user to enter a company and a title. How would I do that without modifying the main user.rb?

This is for Rails 3.2

In that case you can use the client side validations like jQuery validation plugin on just one view rather than having it declared in model itself. — uday, May 20 '14 at 19:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '14 at 05:18

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You can do by declaring custom validations the way @BroiSatse has answered or when saving the user you can pass validate: false as argument, do this way

@user.save(:validate => false)

answered May 21 '14 at 05:18

Rajdeep Singh

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '14 at 20:15

I usually do sth like:

class User < AR::Base

  validates :company, :title, presence: true, if: :validate_company_and_title?

  def validate_company_and_title?
    @validate_company_and_title.nil? || @validate_company_and_title
  end

  def skip_company_and_title_validation!
    @validate_company_and_title = false  
  end
end

Then in your controller create action for given view you can do:

@user.skip_company_and_title_validation!

Overriding presence true in User model

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