ActiveRecord sans transactions

So we're doing this massive migration from this legacy schema for a client, but our estimates put our import time at around 75 hours. So I thought transactions should help out but there was a problem. I'd wrap my insert/update loops with ModelClass.connection.(begin / commit)_db_transaction, but I noticed that every save call would automatically do BEGIN and COMMIT. After digging around for turning off this behavior at the connection level and getting nowhere, I saw method on my object. The function "save_without_transactions" was exactly what I was looking for. Of course there wasn't much documentation that I could find on this function. This might be useful to some newbies going through similar ActiveRecord issues as myself. This function also comes with the exclamation flavor that throws up an Exception. Hope this was helpful to someone looking to use ActiveRecord without transactions.