I have a question about transaction blocks and error handling.
I have an big_object that has an array of other_objects.
So i'm updating these objects from user input and i wrap the whole thing in a transaction, go through each of the objects verify they are valid and then save them if they are if they aren't rollback transaction and jump back to the page and let the user correct their mistake.
#something like... ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do #update big_object for other_objects in big_object do |other_object| #update other_object unless other_object.valid? #oops! looks like my input validations are bad, abort! raise ActiveRecord::Rollback end end big_object.save! end
So when i roll back, i throw it back to the page and give the user some feed back and a chance to correct their mistake. The problem is the object is in a bad state here, it thinks it is saved. So the second time my update function is run it goes through says "hey this time everything is awesome, lets save" and nothing gets saved to the database. I know transactions don't rollback the @objects that are inside of them, any suggestions for got error handling in this situation?