diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d8f2577a77..dba0112e79 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ Major release, unreleased
 - ``send_file`` supports Unicode in ``attachment_filename``. (`#2223`_)
 - Pass ``_scheme`` argument from ``url_for`` to ``handle_build_error``.
   (`#2017`_)
+- Add support for ``provide_automatic_options`` in ``add_url_rule`` to disable
+  adding OPTIONS method when the ``view_func`` argument is not a class.
+  (`#1489`_).
 
+.. _#1489: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/1489
 .. _#2017: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2017
 .. _#2223: https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/2223
 
diff --git a/flask/app.py b/flask/app.py
index c26387f034..a054d23caf 100644
--- a/flask/app.py
+++ b/flask/app.py
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ def iter_blueprints(self):
         return iter(self._blueprint_order)
 
     @setupmethod
-    def add_url_rule(self, rule, endpoint=None, view_func=None, **options):
+    def add_url_rule(self, rule, endpoint=None, view_func=None, provide_automatic_options=None, **options):
         """Connects a URL rule.  Works exactly like the :meth:`route`
         decorator.  If a view_func is provided it will be registered with the
         endpoint.
@@ -1020,6 +1020,10 @@ def index():
                          endpoint
         :param view_func: the function to call when serving a request to the
                           provided endpoint
+        :param provide_automatic_options: controls whether the ``OPTIONS``
+            method should be added automatically. This can also be controlled
+            by setting the ``view_func.provide_automatic_options = False``
+            before adding the rule.
         :param options: the options to be forwarded to the underlying
                         :class:`~werkzeug.routing.Rule` object.  A change
                         to Werkzeug is handling of method options.  methods
@@ -1049,8 +1053,9 @@ def index():
 
         # starting with Flask 0.8 the view_func object can disable and
         # force-enable the automatic options handling.
-        provide_automatic_options = getattr(view_func,
-            'provide_automatic_options', None)
+        if provide_automatic_options is None:
+            provide_automatic_options = getattr(view_func,
+                'provide_automatic_options', None)
 
         if provide_automatic_options is None:
             if 'OPTIONS' not in methods:
diff --git a/tests/test_basic.py b/tests/test_basic.py
index abce3ad44a..677b4be86a 100644
--- a/tests/test_basic.py
+++ b/tests/test_basic.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def index_put():
     assert sorted(rv.allow) == ['GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS', 'POST', 'PUT']
 
 
-def test_options_handling_disabled():
+def test_provide_automatic_options_attr():
     app = flask.Flask(__name__)
 
     def index():
@@ -70,6 +70,54 @@ def index2():
     assert sorted(rv.allow) == ['OPTIONS']
 
 
+def test_provide_automatic_options_kwarg():
+    app = flask.Flask(__name__)
+
+    def index():
+        return flask.request.method
+
+    def more():
+        return flask.request.method
+
+    app.add_url_rule('/', view_func=index, provide_automatic_options=False)
+    app.add_url_rule(
+        '/more', view_func=more, methods=['GET', 'POST'],
+        provide_automatic_options=False
+    )
+
+    c = app.test_client()
+    assert c.get('/').data == b'GET'
+
+    rv = c.post('/')
+    assert rv.status_code == 405
+    assert sorted(rv.allow) == ['GET', 'HEAD']
+
+    # Older versions of Werkzeug.test.Client don't have an options method
+    if hasattr(c, 'options'):
+        rv = c.options('/')
+    else:
+        rv = c.open('/', method='OPTIONS')
+
+    assert rv.status_code == 405
+
+    rv = c.head('/')
+    assert rv.status_code == 200
+    assert not rv.data  # head truncates
+    assert c.post('/more').data == b'POST'
+    assert c.get('/more').data == b'GET'
+
+    rv = c.delete('/more')
+    assert rv.status_code == 405
+    assert sorted(rv.allow) == ['GET', 'HEAD', 'POST']
+
+    if hasattr(c, 'options'):
+        rv = c.options('/more')
+    else:
+        rv = c.open('/more', method='OPTIONS')
+
+    assert rv.status_code == 405
+
+
 def test_request_dispatching():
     app = flask.Flask(__name__)