Ruby on Rails

> Thanks for the answer Philip. It is good to get confirmation
> that I have understood things correctly.
>
>> Yes. And it only does this if the update to @employee was successful
>> first.
>
> Is the order particularly significant in this case (i.e. that it
> attempts to update @employee first)?

No technical reason (as this is an update, not a create), but logically it would make sense that you'd want to update them in that order.

> Obviously it would be bad to update one record and not the other, but
> won't rails throw an error and re-render the 'edit' view if validation
> for either @employee or @employee.department fails?

Nope. update_attributes simply returns true/false depending on whether or not it succeeded. There are ways to make it raise an error, but your code isn't doing that.

-philip

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