Question

I have a before_save defined as follows:

  def before_save
    self.token = generate_token
  end

I want to skip it for specific save method calls. so in my code I would like to do

@user.save

without before_save filter getting called. Can I do that?

Answer 1

You can do:

 @user.send(:update_without_callbacks)

Or create_without_callbacks works as well. I have used both but I don’t know if there is a “save_without_callbacks”
Either way, use sparingly.