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

I would recommend NOT using the skip_callback approach since it is not thread safe. The sneaky save gem however is since it just runs straight sql. Note this will not trigger validations so you will have to call them yourself (ex: my_model.valid?).

Here are some samples from their docs:

# Update. Returns true on success, false otherwise.
existing_record.sneaky_save

# Insert. Returns true on success, false otherwise.
Model.new.sneaky_save

# Raise exception on failure.
record.sneaky_save!