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Asked: 2026-06-12T21:28:59+00:00

I’m using rails with devise confirmable . Generally I want to have users confirm

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I’m using rails with devise confirmable.

Generally I want to have users confirm their email address, however sometimes I need to manually change an email on behalf of an existing user and I want to skip sending the confirmation email.

When creating a new user I can skip the confirmation email with:

user.skip_confirmation!

…but this does not appear to work for existing, already confirmed users – insofar as the email attribute is not updated, and devise still requires the user to confirm the new email and sends out a confirmation email:

@user = User.find_by_email('bob@site.example')
@user.email = 'dead@site.example'
@user.skip_confirmation!
@user.save!
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  1. Editorial Team

    The method you want to use is skip_reconfirmation! (note the ‘re’ in reconfirmation).

    @user = User.find_by_email('bob@site.example')
@user.email = 'dead@site.example'
@user.skip_email_changed_notification!
@user.save!
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