I don't have time to test it right now, but I think has_many :phrases, 
validate: false might be what you're looking for.

On Monday, April 29, 2013 1:19:31 PM UTC-7, jaambros wrote:
>
> Hi all, I've followed your list for sometime now and found always it 
> to be a great resource. I ask your help on this one after searching 
> for a solution all around to no avail. 
> I have an application where I used anaf in a model with children; 
> however as the number of children grew I noticed it was slowing up 
> quite a bit. After some analysis I found that when updating values for 
> one child anaf was doing validations on ALL chldren, which by then was 
> numbering in the thousands. 
>
> To illustrate my point I created this  example: 
>
> class Language < ActiveRecord::Base 
>   has_many :phrases 
>   accepts_nested_attributes_for :phrases 
> end 
>
> class Phrase < ActiveRecord::Base 
>   validates_presence_of :value 
>   belongs_to :language 
>   def before_validation 
>     print "\nValidating: #{self.value}\n" 
>   end 
> end 
>
> $ script/console 
> Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.5) 
> >> lang = Language.first 
> => #<Language id: 1, name: "Italiano"> 
> >> lang.phrases 
> => [#<Phrase id: 7, value: "Buona notte", language_id: 1>, 
> #<Phrase id: 10, value: "Ciao", language_id: 1>, 
> #<Phrase id: 11, value: "Prego", language_id: 1>] 
>
> >> lang.phrases_attributes = [{:id => "7", :value => "Buon giorno"}] 
> => [{:value=>"Buon giorno", :id=>"7"}] 
> >> lang.save 
>
> Validating: Buon giorno 
>
> Validating: Ciao 
>
> Validating: Prego 
>
> => true 
>
> I expected in this example to see validation only on only one phrase 
> {id=>7}, but you can see it did it for all three. 
> I don't think this is expected behavior, right? 
> if so, can you help me find what I I'm missing? 
> After looking up at the code for anaf I suspect the issue may be in 
> autosave, but after a week trying to solve this I'm stumped. 
> can you help me? 
>
> Thanks in advance, Jose 
>

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