<p>The CSRF prevention built in to Rails is causing some problems for some automated load testing we are doing, and I want to turn it off for the duration of the process. How do I do this?</p>

I love simple questions with clear answers.
```
```
#I go in application.rb
self.allow_forgery_protection = false
```
```
If you want to do this for testing only you can move that into one of the environment files (obviously, you'll be touching
```
Application
```
then rather than
```
self
```
).  You could also write something like:
```
```
#I still go in application.rb
self.allow_forgery_protection = false unless ENV["RAILS_ENV"] == "production"
```
```
See
here
for details.  (Continuing Rails' wonderful tradition of having documentation of core features in 2 year old blog posts, which were distilled from commit logs.)