Rails - Jul 2008 - How to make HABTM bulk-assignment transactional?

I have a model with a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship that I''d
like to bulk-assign a bunch of IDs to, as well as other attributes. Is
there any way I can do this in a transaction without having to
explicitly demarcate it?

Code looks something like this:

class Resource
  has_and_belongs_to_many :groups
end

class ResourceController
  def update
    @resource = Resource.find(params[:id])
    @resource.group_ids = params[:group_ids].split('','')
    if @resource.update_attributes(params[:resource])
        ...

What I find is that as soon as I call group_ids, the changes are
written to the database. I want it to happen in the same transaction
that update_attributes uses. I''d rather not have to declare a
transaction block, because there are already relationships between
these objects.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ben
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