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title: Active Record save without validations for ruby on rails
slug: active-record-save-without-validations-for-ruby-on-rails
published_at: 2022-10-21 04:00:10 +0000
updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:18 +0000
summary: 
description: Active Record save without validations for ruby on rails
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author: CJ Avilla
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# Active Record save without validations for ruby on rails

*Published: October 21, 2022*
*Views: 1031*

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## Description

Active Record save without validations for ruby on rails

## Transcript

whatever reason you might need to save a rails active record model and skip the validations so that you can just store the data in the database here i have an active record model called waitlist user that validates that the email on the user is both present and unique let's pop open rails console and play around if we say waitlistuser.block.email we'll get a look at what all the emails are in the database already notice that there are already a couple that are duplicates so test2 at example.com is already a duplicate let's create another user waitlistuser.new with email of test2 at example.com now if we try to say u.s save that is going to fail or return false that's because test2 is not unique in the database but if we say u.s save validate false this is the trick to make sure that our transaction goes through and is committed to the database so now we have created another waitlist user with test2 at example.com as the email address if you have a database level constraint that does not match one of your validations for instance a user cannot have a blank email address if i say waitlistuser.new and i attempt to save this user even with validate false this is going to raise an exception because in the database it requires that the email is present even if you pass validate false you might still get an error from the database layer

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