Re: [Rails] need to mimic threading across controllers

2011-03-30 Thread Michael Pavling
On 29 March 2011 16:15, Lille wrote: > I think a reason I'm stumped here is that I have little deployment > experience. Yet, even so, how would I test the behaviors above, > locally? > > Thanks for any comments, The term you will want to Google for is "race condition". As Fred and Walter say, the

Re: [Rails] need to mimic threading across controllers

2011-03-29 Thread Walter Lee Davis
On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Lille wrote: Hi, I'm hoping to make a parent and several of its dependent children available for updates by multiple users. I want to figure out how to implement and test the following: 1. A user 'checks out' a parent resource: when seeking to update, other users

[Rails] need to mimic threading across controllers

2011-03-29 Thread Lille
Hi, I'm hoping to make a parent and several of its dependent children available for updates by multiple users. I want to figure out how to implement and test the following: 1. A user 'checks out' a parent resource: when seeking to update, other users are informed that the resource and its depende