[Rails] Re: Re: Re: how to perform "most viewed"

Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>> And, of course, that race condition exists in your console experiment,
>> but that's not an issue in the controller method I presented earlier.
>
> Yes, it is. What happens when two people hit the URL that triggers that
> action at the same time?

Sorry I was completely forgetting about the very important rule for any
GET request (such as with the show action). Get request should be
idempotent!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotent

As I realized early and posted to the effect. I do completely agree with
you.
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