# Login engine... locking access

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/login-engine-locking-access/60832>\
**Category:** Engines\
**Created:** [May 17, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/login-engine-locking-access/60832 "2006-05-17T20:50:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clayton\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Clayton\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Clayton_C)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/login-engine-locking-access/60832/1 "2006-05-17T20:50:36Z")

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Story:

Website has ROR with login engine

Multiple people can login to make changes to the sites ‘widgets’  
database  
table

however I want to lock access to any one individual ‘widget’ tuple  
currently  
being edited

basically transaction locking

Question:

Is this possible currently?

Clayton C.

WinterMarket Networks  
Phone: (604) 417-3254  
Vancouver, B.C. Canada  
[http://www.wintermarket.net](http://www.wintermarket.net)  
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**Author:** ![Clayton\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Clayton\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Clayton_C)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/login-engine-locking-access/60832/2 "2006-05-18T08:47:05Z")

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Clayton C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

> basically transaction locking
> 
> Question:
> 
> Is this possible currently?

I don’t think that login engine was designed to do this kind of locking.

My suggestion, would be to use some kind of database locking. You may  
want to  
ask this question on rails list.

## HTH.

Surendra S.  
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