update_Attributes stale Object error

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Hi,

IN one of my unit tests I get an ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError: Attempted to update a stale object

object.save!

in object I have apart from other stuff an after_save method, which calls object.assosication.update_attributes(...)

If I remove that line from my code my tests succeeds.

Unfortunetly, I do not understand why an update_attributes call can generate an StaleObjectError.

Maybe anybody can explain this to me?

Thanks a lot in advance. Volker

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You're using optimistic locking. When using this (ie if you have a lock_version column), if you try to save an object when a newer version exists in the database (ie you're trying to clobber new data with an older version) you'll get that exception.

Fred

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Amazing....

if I do the following:

@parent = Parent.find(1)

child1 = Child.new(:parent => @parent);

child1.save!

in after_save of child1: self.parent.update_attributes(:test => 'Hallo');

afterwards: assert_not_nil(child1.parent.test); assert_not_nil(@parent.test);

The second assert will fail... I ve thought all references will go to the same object.... but it seems that was kind of wrong... Quite ugly...