Rails4: Override/skip certain model validations?

Question

Would appreciate it if someone could suggest what best practice/cleanest method would be in this case:

I have a User model with a couple of validation checks for when someone creates an account via my site. I want to skip these validations when someone tries to create a new User record via my api.

I have read about solutions involving creating subclasses of the model and setting flags in private methods for each class to skip validation, or using attribute accessors to set flags, not sure what would be best or if there is something better which can be done.

Try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8881712/skip-certain-validation-method-in-model — tpbowden, Mar 09 '16 at 13:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 13:13

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You can try:

attributes = {
      first_name: first_name,
      last_name: last_name,
      email: email,
      title: title,
      birthday: birthday,
      phone: phone,
      mobile: mobile,
    }
user.assign_attributes(attributes)
User.save!(validate: false)

This will skip validation.

answered Mar 09 '16 at 13:13

Mohammad Shahadat Hossain

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is there a way to do this without skipping all validations – L457 Mar 09 '16 at 13:17
Do you have different callbacks in your classes? Do you have nested attributes in you model? – Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Mar 09 '16 at 13:27
There is concept of form object. http://webuild.envato.com/blog/creating-form-objects-with-activemodel-and-virtus/. you can take a look. – Mohammad Shahadat Hossain Mar 09 '16 at 13:31

Rails4: Override/skip certain model validations?

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