Comments on: ActsAsInsertOrUpdate http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/ The guys behind LivingSocial Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:58:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PWills http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-148 PWills Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-148 FWIW, this is called “Upsert” by Oracle and “Merge” by Microsoft. I think both of those verbs are better than the slightly tedious “ActsAsInsertOrUpdate”. FWIW, this is called “Upsert” by Oracle and “Merge” by Microsoft. I think both of those verbs are better than the slightly tedious “ActsAsInsertOrUpdate”.

]]> By: Aaron http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Aaron Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-149 Sure... ActsAsUpsert didnt sound as cool though... Its a play on all the crazy ActsAsChicken, ActsAsTaggable, ActsAsCool, etc names used in the Rails community... The name was supposed to be funny.. Sure… ActsAsUpsert didnt sound as cool though… Its a play on all the crazy ActsAsChicken, ActsAsTaggable, ActsAsCool, etc names used in the Rails community… The name was supposed to be funny..

]]> By: geshido http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-150 geshido Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-150 maybe use github.com for this patch? maybe use github.com for this patch?

]]> By: Peter Vandenberk http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Peter Vandenberk Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-151 Extremely useful, even with the somewhat dire warning! :-) FWIW: we were using MySQL's "REPLACE INTO..." command to achieve the same net effect: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html ... but the "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" functionality definitely seems a better way of doing things. Extremely useful, even with the somewhat dire warning! :-)

FWIW: we were using MySQL’s "REPLACE INTO…" command to achieve the same net effect:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replace.html

… but the "INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" functionality definitely seems a better way of doing things.

]]> By: dcpatton http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-152 dcpatton Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-152 There is also REPLACE. There are differences: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/18/insert-on-duplicate-key-update-and-replace-into/ There is also REPLACE. There are differences:

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/01/18/insert-on-duplicate-key-update-and-replace-into/

]]> By: Justin Marney http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Justin Marney Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-153 Is this plugin available somewheres? I can't seem to track down the actual files and I'd lvoe to take a look at how this works. Thanks! J Is this plugin available somewheres? I can’t seem to track down the actual files and I’d lvoe to take a look at how this works.

Thanks! J

]]> By: agiledevcool http://blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/04/23/actsasinsertorupdate/comment-page-1/#comment-154 agiledevcool Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:00 +0000 blog.hungrymachine.com/2008/11/13/actsasinsertorupdate#comment-154 This plugin would be really helpful. Any sense of when it will become publicly available? This plugin would be really helpful. Any sense of when it will become publicly available?

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