Rails 3 with Devise for Authentication - How do I manually create a user?

Question

I would like to manually create new Users, without forcing them to verify their email address.

The idea is to allow existing users to automatically add

Answer 1

I just want to add for future reference that since Devise 2.2 there is now a skip_confirmation_notification! method available as well which basically does everything from Matheus' post without redefining the methods in the model.