How to remove validation using instance_eval clause in Rails?

Question

I would like to enhance existing class using instance_eval. There original definition contains validation, which require presence of certain fields, ie:

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Answer 1

As I was trying to do this to remove the phone validation from the spree Address model, below is the code I got to work. I added the type check for callback.raw_filter because I only wanted to remove the presence validator on the phone field. I also had to add it because it would fail when trying to run against one of the other validators specified in the Spree::Address model that did not have an 'attributes' key for callback.raw_filter, thus an exception was thrown.

Spree::Address.class_eval do

   # Remove the requirement on :phone being present.
  _validators.reject!{ |key, _| key == :phone }

  _validate_callbacks.each do |callback|
    callback.raw_filter.attributes.delete :phone if callback.raw_filter.is_a?(ActiveModel::Validations::PresenceValidator)
  end

end