[Radiant] Conflicting updates

Tue Mar 20 00:10:31 CDT 2007

On 20/03/2007, at 3:51 PM, Daniel Sheppard wrote:
>
>> All this assumes that we aren't going down the road of: User
>> can't even open the page because user B has that page locked  
>> (opened).
>
> That's really not possible over http (well, possible, but not  
> reliably so).

Well, it is possible using pessimistic locking (HTTP's not involved)  
- but I think for a CMS, optimistic would be the way to go.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Pessimistic.html