Rails - Nov 2005 - update of a stale object

So, sometimes the object I have is stale, and I would like to update it.

Using the lock_version, i can tell if it is stale and then know to
reload the object and then retry it.

Is there a simple way to add this retry to all updates without putting
the code all over the place?

Also, is this even a good thing to do or the best way to do it?

Thanks,

Brian