Hi folks,

No answers at all?

On Oct 16, 8:30 am, MarcRic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Let me ask for a little help. I would like to know how this situation
> could be handled in Rails.
>
> Here is the point: I have an application (Java nowadays) that uses two
> master resources: a Data base and an 
> ECMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management.
>
> In situations like that, generally the user selects the document to be
> stored (PDF, IMAGE, DOC, etc), the application stores it in the ECM,
> getting the DOC_ID, and writes a DOC_ID reference in the database in
> one or more of the business model tables.
>
> And here comes the problem. There is not a unified transaction control
> between the database and the ECM.
>
> Theoretically the act of writing in the ECM and the act of writing in
> the database should be under the control of the same transaction. Any
> problem and EVERYTHING should be undone.
>
> In Java, that is easy, well, better to say feasible, because the
> solution was using EJBs. I have created an EJB for each writing, one
> EJB for writing in the ECM and other for writing in the database, and
> a third to group the previous two. That way, this third EJB becomes
> responsible to the whole transaction control.
>
> How could it be done in Rails? Should I control it manually? Or does
> Rails have any kind of transaction control container that can handle
> this?
>
> In this example, if something goes wrong in the last writing action
> (which depends on how the ECM works), the first writing action should
> be undone by the application?
>
> Thanks.

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