Thanks for the history lesson Xavier.

Knowing that history, I like Steve's idea of deprecating update_attribute 
and advertising update_column as the fast way to update a single column and 
update_attributes as the way to run through the whole update "stack".

On Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:39:38 AM UTC-6, Steve Klabnik wrote:
>
> I don't think that the 's' is a big enough change to make it 
> noticeable. I like update_column, maybe a bang method would make sense 
> too. But I'd expect them to both run validations. 
>
> Maybe deprecating one is a good idea. 
>

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