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Do something only after the currently open transactions have finished.

Normally everything gets rolled back when a transaction fails, but you cannot roll back sending an email or adding a job to Resque.

Its great for just-in-time callbacks: class User after_create :do_stuff, :oops

  def do_stuff
    after_transaction do
      send_an_email # cannot be rolled back
    end
    comments.create(...) # will be rolled back
  end

  def oops
    raise "do the rolback!"
  end
end

Or general 'this should be rolled back when in a transaction code like jobs:

class Resque
  def revertable_enqueue(*args)
    ActiveRecord::Base.after_transaction do
      enqueue(*args)
    end
  end
end

Alternative: after_commit hook in Rails 3, can replace the first usage:

class User
  after_commit :send_an_email :on=>:create
  ater_create :do_stuff, :oops
  ...
end

after_transaction will perform the given block imediatly if no transactions are open.

rails plugin install git://github.com/grosser/ar_after_transaction
gem install ar_after_transaction

TODO

• find out if we are in test mode with or without transactions (atm assumes depth of 1 for 'test' env)

Authors

Original idea and code from Jamis Buck (post by Jeremy Kemper)

Contributors

• Bogdan Gusiev

Michael Grosser
grosser.michael@gmail.com
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