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...ls app that has a sync feature which looks up a remote database and updates the local database accordingly. Anyway, things work great for the most part, but there is a section of code which seems to randomly raise errors. I have something like this: homelinks = Syncinventorydesc.find(:all) InventoryDescription.delete_all() for link in homelinks locallink = InventoryDescription.new() locallink.inventory_id = link.inventory_id locallink.description_id = link.description_id locallink.save! end this code tears down the local table completely before going through each item fetch...

...ompletely, and rebuilt from scratch. the error only comes up every once in a while, so often the code runs fine.. here''s the code in question: begin #rescue block in event remote db is unreachable homelinks = Syncinventorydesc.find(:all) #fetch all records rescue end InventoryDescription.delete_all() #drop all records from local table for link in homelinks #for each record we fetched.. locallink = InventoryDescription.new() locallink.inventory_id = link.inventory_id locallink.description_id = link.description_id locallink.save! #inser...