From 0bb32588b7e2badfa708271c0a743444abb76426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pratik Naik Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:52:27 +0100 Subject: Fix pessimistic locking examples --- railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile') diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index b34e2ffc03..291989c30e 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -571,13 +571,13 @@ end h5. Pessimistic Locking -Pessimistic locking uses a locking mechanism provided by the underlying database. Passing +:lock => true+ to +Model.find+ obtains an exclusive lock on the selected rows. +Model.find+ using +:lock+ are usually wrapped inside a transaction for preventing deadlock conditions. +Pessimistic locking uses a locking mechanism provided by the underlying database. Using +lock+ when building a relation obtains an exclusive lock on the selected rows. Relations using +lock+ are usually wrapped inside a transaction for preventing deadlock conditions. For example: Item.transaction do - i = Item.first(:lock => true) + i = Item.lock.first i.name = 'Jones' i.save end @@ -592,11 +592,11 @@ Item Update (0.4ms) UPDATE `items` SET `updated_at` = '2009-02-07 18:05:56', ` SQL (0.8ms) COMMIT -You can also pass raw SQL to the +:lock+ option to allow different types of locks. For example, MySQL has an expression called +LOCK IN SHARE MODE+ where you can lock a record but still allow other queries to read it. To specify this expression just pass it in as the lock option: +You can also pass raw SQL to the +lock+ method for allowing different types of locks. For example, MySQL has an expression called +LOCK IN SHARE MODE+ where you can lock a record but still allow other queries to read it. To specify this expression just pass it in as the lock option: Item.transaction do - i = Item.find(1, :lock => "LOCK IN SHARE MODE") + i = Item.lock("LOCK IN SHARE MODE").find(1) i.increment!(:views) end -- cgit v1.2.3