Rails 3 skip validations and callbacks

Question

I have a particularly complex model with validations and callbacks defined. The business needs now calls for a particular scenario where adding a new record requires skippin

Answer 1

My take was like this (note: this disables callbacks on create, for update, delete and others you need to add them to array).

    begin
      [:create, :save].each{|a| self.class.skip_callback(a) } # We disable callbacks on save and create

      # create new record here without callbacks, tou can also disable validations with 
      # .save(:validate => false)
    ensure
      [:create, :save].each{|a| self.class.set_callback(a) }  # and we ensure that callbacks are restored
    end