hi steven,
this is what i know,
in your feed model i guess there is a association defined, with "items" as name of association, so when ever you do some thing like feed.items = {Some Item Objects} that will be associated to this feed db object(row). (i don't know whether you can override this behaviour)
So, in this case if do this it works fine, class Feed < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accesor :related_tmp_items # just name sake
has_many :items
def initialize(*args) super(*args) @related_tmp_items=nil end
end
now if i say something like this,
feed.related_tmp_items = Item.find() # find what ever i want..
Note: One more way is ( i din't try this), using Transaction::Simple.. using that you can start your transaction before items are assigned and rollback the transaction when you don't want.
You may face same problem if you try something like this.
feed.item_ids = {list of item object id's}.. # basically many to many relation-ship
P.s: Sorry if i am not answering your problem statement.
