skip confirmation e-mail in development with devise

As simple as that

user=User.new
user.email="[email protected]"
user.password="yourPassword"
user.skip_confirmation!
user.save

Devise has also a method skip_confirmation! that you can call on the model before saving it to avoid sending the mail. It simply sets the confirmed_at attribute which results in skipping the mail sending.

try Letter Opener gem from Ryan Bates

https://github.com/ryanb/letter_opener

it will open the email in the browser without sending it. You don't want to be skipping stuff out if you're in development because stuff will get missed/forgotten about.