I have a regular Rails model with many validations. The model has a skip_validations column. When an object has skip_validations: true, I want to be able to update the object without running any validations.
Is there any way to do this without adding an unless option to every validation? -- (for example unless: Proc.new { |obj| obj.skip_validations == true })
Thank you!
Instead of having a field deliberately to skip validations, you can pass validate: false to the save method.
Please take a look at this
P.S: Better to stay away from reinventing the wheel.
You can group all the conditional validations together, as documented here https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations.html#grouping-conditional-validations
class User < ApplicationRecord
with_options unless: Proc.new { |obj| obj.skip_validations == true } do |obj|
obj.validates :password, length: { minimum: 10 }
...
end
end
Another possible answer (not recommended) is to overwrite the valid? method inside the model.
def valid?(*args)
if self.skip_validations
return true
end
super(args)
end