[Rails] Ignoring Validations In An Admin Tool?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 16:23 -0800, HH wrote:
> I have the following validation on and 'Order' model:
> 
> validates_presence_of :order_lines, :message => 'missing one or more
> products.', :on => :save
> 
> Ok, great. An order has to have products. Ok.
> 
> Problem is, there are some old orders that don't have lines (don't ask) and
> in the admin tool we need to be able to work on these orders.
> 
> Problem is that we can't save them since they technically fail validation.
> In the admin tool I want to be able to get around this.
> 
> I'm using two methods to update order status, depending on if we're doing
> lots of 'em at a time:
> 
> Order.update(params[:item].keys, params[:item].values)
> 
> Or just one:
> 
>     @order = Order.find(params[:id])
>     @order.update_attributes(params[:order])
> 
> So, can anyone offer any advice in this scenario to bypass validations and
> update the objects/save them?
> 
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maybe I am dense but couldn't you just use sql to add what you need - be
they columns or rows ? ...i.e. insert into ... where ... 

Craig