<p>I have an after_save filter which I dont want to trigger in a specific instance.  Is there a way to do this similar to save_without_validation?</p>

<p>Thanks,</p>

There is a good example of extending ActiveRecord to provide callback skipping here:
http://weareintegrum.com/?p=10
The idea is to create a method on ActiveRecord called skip_callback that accepts a block:
```
```
def self.skip_callback(callback, &block)
  method = instance_method(callback)
  remove_method(callback) if respond_to?(callback)
  define_method(callback){ true }
  begin
    result = yield
  ensure
    remove_method(callback)
    define_method(callback, method)
  end
  result
end
```
```
Then anything you do within the block does not execute the callback.