In Ruby on Rails, when you want to apply validation only under certain conditions, you can use with_options to group them nicely.

・Ruby on Rails Guides: Active Record Validations and Callbacks

・paramがなければModelのValidationをskipすれば良いじゃない #Ruby #Rails - Qiita

5.4 Grouping conditional validations Sometimes it is useful to have multiple validations use one condition, it can be easily achieved using with_options.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  with_options :if => :is_admin? do |admin|
    admin.validates :password, :length => { :minimum => 10 }
    admin.validates :email, :presence => true
  end
end

All validations inside of with_options block will have automatically passed the condition :if => :is_admin?

That’s all from the Gemba.