title: How to skip the need to confirm an email address update with devise?
body: <p>I'm using <code>rails</code> with <code>devise</code> <code>confirmable</code>.</p>
  <p>Generally I want to have users confirm their email address, however sometimes I need to manually change an email on behalf of an existing user and I want to skip sending the confirmation email.</p>
  <p>When <em>creating</em> a new user I can skip the confirmation email with:</p>
  <pre><code>user.skip_confirmation!
  </code></pre>
  <p>...but this does not appear to work for existing, already confirmed users - insofar as the email attribute is not updated, and <code>devise</code> still requires the user to confirm the new email and sends out a confirmation email:</p>
  <pre><code>@user = User.find_by_email('bob@site.example')
  @user.email = 'dead@site.example'
  @user.skip_confirmation!
  @user.save!
  </code></pre>