ruby on rails - How to skip has_secure_password validations

Question

In my app, only admins can create new User records. The user is emailed an activation link where they set their password.

I'd like to use the has_secure_passord method (railscast):

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_password
  ...
end

Works great, but it automatically validates presence of password digest...so when the admin creates the record the validations fail. I there a way to skip just the automatically added password_digest validation without skipping the others I've added?

Answer 1

Since 4.X versions of rails, has_secure_password takes an option :validations. If you set it to false, it will not run validations.

The 3.X version of the gem does not support this parameter. However you can backport the activemodel/lib/active_model/secure_password.rb from latest 4.0.XRC code which supports this argument.

So with that, your code will look like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_secure_password :validations => false
  ...
end