Is there a way to make a before_save conditional?
Rails 5
I've had success defining a private method which contains the boolean logic and then passing it as a symbol (that last part seems like a requirement):
before_save do_something, if: :private_boolean_method?
I also recently found out you can simply pass a block (took me a while to figure out the syntax):
before_save do_something, if: -> { condition == "met" }
you can use :if
before_save do_something, :if => Proc.new {|model| model.some_boolean_attr_or_method }
or simply
before_save do_something, :if => some_condition
EDIT:
for a quick reference, there's an excellent guide about this:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_callbacks.html#conditional-callbacks