Hey All,

I've recently switched from using ActiveRecord to DataMapper and the
minor differences have made it a smooth transition so far. However, I
can't seem to find any documentation on maintaining a counter. I have
an integer column in my model that needs to be incremented
periodically. My first inclination was to use model.update_attributes
(), but this seems to be a bad idea because the database value could
be overwritten before DataMapper can write. The SQL query:

UPDATE table_name SET counter = counter + 1 WHERE id = n;

accomplishes what I want to do. I've perused the DataMapper code and
docs, but I can't seem to find a method that will abstract this.
ActiveRecord's is called 'increment_counter'. Am I missing the simple
way to do this?


Andrew S.
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