Reading the Agile book, I can't find a single command to save a collection.
The save command seems to operate on only individual objects.

Lets say I have a collection that I have received from a find_all command.
I want to go through and change some attributes in various objects in the
collection.  Then I want to resave the whole collection back to the
database.  I don't think the update_all command is right for this, as it
understand it...

Do I just have to iterate through the collection, issuing a save command on
each object?

Thanks for any advice...

Shelby
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On 12/31/05, Shelby Westman <shelby.westman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading the Agile book, I can't find a single command to save a collection.
> The save command seems to operate on only individual objects.
>
>  Lets say I have a collection that I have received from a find_all command.
> I want to go through and change some attributes in various objects in the
> collection.  Then I want to resave the whole collection back to the
> database.  I don't think the update_all command is right for this, as it
> understand it...
>
>  Do I just have to iterate through the collection, issuing a save command
on
> each object?
>
To the best of my knowledge, there's not a quicker way than:
@your_collection.each {|r| r.save}

On the other hand, you probably also need to make sure the records are
valid, so..
good_to_go = true
@collection.each do |record|
  good_to_go = false unless record.save
end
flash[:notice] = "All records saved. Lunch break!" if good_to_go
etc, etc, etc.

I have a lot of this stuff in my Rails apps, so hopefully someone will
come along with a better way.

>  Do I just have to iterate through the collection, issuing a save command
on

> > each object?
> >
> To the best of my knowledge, there's not a quicker way than:
> @your_collection.each {|r| r.save}



Thanks, Wilson -  I couldn't figure out any other way to do it as well...

Shelby
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> On the other hand, you probably also need to make sure the records are
> valid, so..
> good_to_go = true
> @collection.each do |record|
>   good_to_go = false unless record.save
> end
> flash[:notice] = "All records saved. Lunch break!" if good_to_go
> etc, etc, etc.

You could also do it like this:

   good_to_go = @collection.all? { |r| r.save }

--

Dan

On 1/1/06, Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@autopilotmarketing.com> wrote:
> > On the other hand, you probably also need to make sure the records are
> > valid, so..
> > good_to_go = true
> > @collection.each do |record|
> >   good_to_go = false unless record.save
> > end
> > flash[:notice] = "All records saved. Lunch break!" if
good_to_go
> > etc, etc, etc.
>
> You could also do it like this:
>
>    good_to_go = @collection.all? { |r| r.save }
>
Nice one. The best posts on this list are the ones that make me feel stupid.
I'm going to rewrite some actions now. :)