Ruby on Rails / Devise - Bypassing custom validation option in model when resetting password

Question

In my project, I altered the registration form in Devise to add an :agree option via an accessor (user must accept terms of service to register, etc). If they don\'t agree, it d

Answer 1

I prefer to base these kinds of things on whether or not the record is new (which is the only time the user will be "signing up").

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :agree, :term_agreement => TRUE, :if => :signing_up?

  # Return true if the user is currently signing up
  def signing_up?
    new_record?
  end
end

The key is to keep in mind that the value of :if and :unless is "a method, proc or string to call to determine if the validation should [or should not] occur"--so you're free to define methods on your model for this purpose.