In my User model, I have the usual suspects of email, first\_name, last\_name, password, etc.

I have several cases where I need to skip all or some of the validations.

Currently, I have an unless condition that looks something like:

```
  validates :first_name, presence: :true, etc..., unless: :skip_first_name_validation?
  validates :last_name, presence: :true, etc..., unless: :skip_last_name_validation?
  validates :email, presence: :true, etc..., unless: :skip_email_validation?

```

Of course I also have:

```
  attr_accessor :skip_first_name_validation, :skip_last_name_validation, etc.

```

And then I use private methods to check the state of each:

```
  def skip_first_name_validation?
    skip_first_name_validation
  end

  def skip_last_name_validation?
    skip_last_name_validation
  end

  def skip_email_validation?
    skip_email_validation
  end

  etc..

```

From there, whenever I need to skip validations, I just assign each one of these guys a `true` value in my controller.

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**So while all of this works fine, I'm wondering if there's a more elegant way?**

Ideally it would be nice if I could use a simple conditional like this for each attribute in my models:

```
:skip_validation?

```

And in my controllers, just do something like:

```
skip_validation(:first_name, :last_name, :password) = true

```

Can someone offer a suggestion for how I might program this? I'd prefer not using an existing gem/library, but am trying to understand how to program this behavior in rails. Thanks.