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...http://dev.rubyonrails.com/ticket/1196) and have come up with a tentative solution that I''d like to bring up here. What if we use a "conditional" parameter in the validates_* methods? Here''s how it would look like in practice: class Movie < ActiveRecord::Base def allowed_to_validate=(true_false) @allowed_to_validate = true_false end def allowed_to_validate @allowed_to_validate end protected validates_length_of :title, :within => 1..30, :if => :allowed_to_validate end This would solve the problem that Joe discovered (one-way encrypted attributes ca...