Fun With RoR Transactions

RoR multi-table transaction appears to be a mess. You have to create transactions on each table. In essence it isn’t really multi-table transaction.

Also nested transactions do not work as expected. If the outer transaction fails then the data is in inconsistent state as the inner transaction has succeeded. Then you will have to manually reverse the effect of inner transaction(s) to bring the database back to a consistent state.

Source: RoR Wiki via LinuxIntegrators

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