Added skip_confirmation! It skips confirmation token generation, e-mail sending and automatically sets confirmed_at.

lib/devise/models/confirmable.rb

@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ module Devise
         base.class_eval do
           extend ClassMethods
 
-          before_create :generate_confirmation_token
-          after_create  :send_confirmation_instructions
+          before_create :generate_confirmation_token, :if => :confirmation_required?
+          after_create  :send_confirmation_instructions, :if => :confirmation_required?
         end
       end
 
@@ -78,8 +78,20 @@ module Devise
         confirmed? || confirmation_period_valid?
       end
 
+      # If you don't want confirmation to be sent on create, neither a code
+      # to be generated, call skip_confirmation!
+      def skip_confirmation!
+        self.confirmed_at  = Time.now
+        @skip_confirmation = true
+      end
+
       protected
 
+        # Callback to overwrite if confirmation is required or not.
+        def confirmation_required?
+          !@skip_confirmation
+        end
+
         # Checks if the confirmation for the user is within the limit time.
         # We do this by calculating if the difference between today and the
         # confirmation sent date does not exceed the confirm in time configured.

lib/devise/models/recoverable.rb

@@ -20,16 +20,11 @@ module Devise
         end
       end
 
-      # Update password
-      def reset_password(new_password, new_password_confirmation)
-        self.password = new_password
-        self.password_confirmation = new_password_confirmation
-      end
-
       # Update password saving the record and clearing token. Returns true if
       # the passwords are valid and the record was saved, false otherwise.
       def reset_password!(new_password, new_password_confirmation)
-        reset_password(new_password, new_password_confirmation)
+        self.password = new_password
+        self.password_confirmation = new_password_confirmation
         clear_reset_password_token if valid?
         save
       end

test/models/confirmable_test.rb

@@ -108,6 +108,17 @@ class ConfirmableTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     end
   end
 
+  test 'should not generate a new token neither send e-mail if skip_confirmation! is invoked' do
+    user = new_user
+    user.skip_confirmation!
+
+    assert_email_not_sent do
+      user.save!
+      assert_nil user.confirmation_token
+      assert_not_nil user.confirmed_at
+    end
+  end
+
   test 'should find a user to send confirmation instructions' do
     user = create_user
     confirmation_user = User.send_confirmation_instructions(:email => user.email)
@@ -125,20 +136,13 @@ class ConfirmableTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     assert_equal 'not found', confirmation_user.errors[:email]
   end
 
-  test 'should reset confirmation token before send the confirmation instructions email' do
+  test 'should generate a confirmation token before send the confirmation instructions email' do
     user = create_user
     token = user.confirmation_token
     confirmation_user = User.send_confirmation_instructions(:email => user.email)
     assert_not_equal token, user.reload.confirmation_token
   end
 
-  test 'should reset confirmation status when sending the confirmation instructions' do
-    user = create_user
-    assert_not user.confirmed?
-    confirmation_user = User.send_confirmation_instructions(:email => user.email)
-    assert_not user.reload.confirmed?
-  end
-
   test 'should send email instructions for the user confirm it\'s email' do
     user = create_user
     assert_email_sent do

test/models/recoverable_test.rb

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class RecoverableTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
 
   test 'should reset password and password confirmation from params' do
     user = create_user
-    user.reset_password('123456789', '987654321')
+    user.reset_password!('123456789', '987654321')
     assert_equal '123456789', user.password
     assert_equal '987654321', user.password_confirmation
   end