Transactional Services on RoR

Rails
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Hi there,

I’m pretty new in RoR. I have to deal with 2 different objects from
the model, and to do some updates on them… How can I work in an
transactional scope? I mean, if second fails, the first rolls back.

Where do I have to put this code? In the controller, in the model, or
is there any kind of service layer?

Thanks

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Broadly speaking, this is a business decision so it belongs where the
BL resides – in the model layer. Depending on how your models are
related, some of that may be taken care of for you through the
association proxies. For example, if Header has_many :details (Detail
belongs_to :header) then…

…
@header = Header.new( … )
@detail = @header.details.build( … )
@header.save

The @header.save above will create the header and detail records
wrapped in a DB connection.

If you want more explicit control over the transaction then you can
use the #transaction method of the ActiveRecord (model) objects.

Header.transaction do
header.update_attributes( … )
detail.update_attributes( … )
end

For more info check the Rails API here: