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2006 Aug 16
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Stale object errors
...ody => params[:value]})
Of course, Rails has to instantiate the object & validate it before
it updates the database, so it''s not actually atomic, hence the
occasional staleobject error.
So I''ve been wondering about creating a block method looking
something like:
def update_volatile_object
num_attempts = 5
while num_attempts>0
begin
yield # the block should do something along the lines of
Message.update(blah)
break # If we got here, we didn''t raise a stale object error
rescue ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError => e
num_attempts -=...