Update(ids, attributes)

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    # File vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb, line

473
473: def update(id, attributes)
474: if id.is_a?(Array)
475: idx = -1
476: id.collect { |id| idx += 1; update(id,
attributes[idx]) }
477: else
478: object = find(id)
479: object.update_attributes(attributes)
480: object
481: end
482: end

it seems there is no way that a call to

update(ids, attributes)

could possibly do a ‘begin transaction;’ … ‘commit;’ as was guessing
it
might in the case of list input.

can that be right? if so why would this not be automatic for list
updates?

-a

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On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

it seems there is no way that a call to
update(ids, attributes)
could possibly do a ‘begin transaction;’ … ‘commit;’ as was
guessing it
might in the case of list input.

can that be right? if so why would this not be automatic for list
updates?

I imagine it was overlooked when implemented. Check out lib/
active_record/transactions.rb – #destroy and #save are wrapped;
update should be as well. Please post a bug to http://
dev.rubyonrails.org/newticket.

Best,
jeremy
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I don’t think this is a bug; you can always wrap the update in a
transaction
if desired. I would rather handle when explicit COMMITs are executed
than have the
code issue them automatically.

As the code stands, if an explicit transaction is not used then each
UPDATE is
COMMITted implicitly, as an AUTOCOMMIT – slow but workable, and easily
overridden
with an explicit transaction if desired.