[Rails] Re: need to mimic threading across controllers

On Mar 29, 4:15 pm, Lille <lille.pengu...@gmail.com> 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 are informed that the resource and its dependent children
> are currently unavailable for updating.
>
> 2. A user 'checks out' a child resource: when seeking to update, other
> users are informed that the child is unavailable for updating, though
> the parent may be available.
>
> 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?
>

Presumably you've got a flag of some sort that you set to indicate
that a record in use ? (or perhaps better than a flag, one or both of
locked_since and locked_by fields telling other users who has the
record locked). I don't see any particular difficulties with testing
this

Fred

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