From: Edward Faulkner <ef@...>
Date: 2005-09-20T13:00:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Some interesting criticisms of rails [NOT dining philosophers]

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:38:22PM +0900, Bob Hutchison wrote:

> does Rails really not have application level transactions? By
> application level transactions I understand that to mean that if the
> application pulls a bunch of objects in from the database, modifies
> some of them, then Rails can guarantee that all of the changed
> objects have been written successfully or not at all to the db. If
> Rails cannot do this, then there is a class of applications that
> Rails cannot support. I find this difficult to believe.

Rails can certainly do simple transactions.  You just pass a block to
the 'transaction' method and all database writes within it will be
within a single transaction.

What may be more difficult is maintaining a single transaction across
multiple http requests.  I think you'd need to store the modified
objects within the session until you were ready to do one big commit
to the database.

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