# Saving Without Validation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-without-validation/107020>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 16, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-without-validation/107020 "2007-06-16T18:13:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-without-validation/107020/1 "2007-06-16T18:13:05Z")

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How do you save a model without validation? In my migration I want to  
make a change to every row in a model but validation rules have  
evolved over time and some of the older records are not validating…  
argh…

Any suggestions? 🙂

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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/saving-without-validation/107020/2 "2007-06-16T18:29:07Z")

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Hi John,

John K. wrote:

> How do you save a model without validation?

object.save\_with\_validation(false)

Best regards,  
Bill