Updating objects in arrays

rubyonrails-talk
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Perhaps this is a Rails issue. However, I need to first determine whether I simply am missing something about updating members of an array.

I have an array of 10 ActiveRecord objects. I wish to iterate over the array and update an attribute. When I do this the underlying table row changes but the object in the array frequently does not. For example:

count = 0 current_entries.each do |entry| puts( entry.object_id ) puts( current_entries[count].object_id ) puts( “***” ) puts( entry.lock_version ) entry = set_customs_entry_status_for( entry, status ) puts( entry.lock_version ) current_entries[ count ] = entry puts( current_entries[ count ] = entry ) end

gives: 58380880 58380880

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Perhaps this is a Rails issue. However, I need to first determine whether I simply am missing something about updating members of an array.

I have an array of 10 ActiveRecord objects. I wish to iterate over the array and update an attribute. When I do this the underlying table row changes but the object in the array frequently does not. For example:

  count = 0   current_entries.each do |entry|     puts( entry.object_id )     puts( current_entries[count].object_id )     puts( "***" )     puts( entry.lock_version )     entry = set_customs_entry_status_for( entry, status )

You have not shown us set_customs_entry_status_for but it might be informative to try a      puts( entry.object_id ) here.

Colin

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The answer to the source of the problem actually was in the object_ids given in my original message. I just did not see what my data was telling me. There is a contingent update on entry when a different model is updated. This was creating the stale record issue because the table was being updated via a different set of objects from those under examination in the test.