From: Andreas Schwarz <f@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T20:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Database Transactions

listrecv wrote:
> ActiveRecord's standard procedure for transactions is to send a block,
> and throw an exception to roll it back (
> http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Transactions/ClassMethods.html
> ).  I found this rather uncomfortable.  I'd like to be able to begin
> transactions, commit them, or roll them back from within (fairly)
> complex control structures - and having to do everything within a
> block, with one way out, is no good.

You can start/commit/rollback transactions manually 
(ActiveRecord::Base.connection.start_transaction, IIRC). Though I don't 
see why using a block should be a problem for your control structure.

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