Allow ActiveRecord observers to be disabled.

We have to use Observer#update rather than Observer#send since the enabled state is checked in #update before forwarding the method call on.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/lifecycle_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/lifecycle_test.rb
index 643e949087..75e5dfa49b 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/lifecycle_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/lifecycle_test.rb
@@ -231,6 +231,18 @@ class LifecycleTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     assert_not_nil observer.topic_ids.last
   end
 
+  test "able to disable observers" do
+    observer = DeveloperObserver.instance # activate
+    observer.calls.clear
+
+    ActiveRecord::Base.observers.disable DeveloperObserver do
+      Developer.create! :name => 'Ancestor', :salary => 100000
+      SpecialDeveloper.create! :name => 'Descendent', :salary => 100000
+    end
+
+    assert_equal [], observer.calls
+  end
+
   def test_observer_is_called_once
     observer = DeveloperObserver.instance # activate
     observer.calls.clear