From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-20T13:02:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Some interesting criticisms of rails [NOT dining philosophers]

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On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Bob Hutchison wrote:
> As I said, I don't know Rails that well (cursory understanding, at  
> best really) -- 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.

To be a little rude (but with a helpful intent), you don't have to  
know any rails to be able to type "rails transactions" into Google  
and look at the first 1-5 hits to decide that it does in fact have  
transactions, and not just on a per-table basis.


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