How to avoid the validation, callbacks and 'attr_accessible' effects during the seeding process using Ruby on Rails 3?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3 and I am trying to seed data in my application database.

In \'RAILS_ROOT/models/user.rb\' I have:

class User < ActiveRe         


        

Answer 1

If you check ActiveRecord's documentation you'll see the attributes= method has a parameter to enable this:

attributes=(new_attributes, guard_protected_attributes = true)

Use it like this:

# Create a new user
@user = User.new

# Attributes for the user
@attrib = {
  :name       => "Test1 name",
  :surname    => "Test1 surname",
  :email      => "test1@test1.test1"
}

# Use 'send' to call the attributes= method on the object
@user.send :attributes=, @attrib, false

# Save the object
@user.save

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