Is there a way to perform a set of non-atomic actions on MongoDB server (using the Ruby driver) as an single atomic action? What I need is basically a lock on certain object/collection.
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Is there a way to perform a set of non-atomic actions on MongoDB server (using the Ruby driver) as an single atomic action? What I need is basically a lock on certain object/collection.
There’s no way to do it in the Ruby driver because there’s no way to do it in MongoDB. Mongo only supports single-document atomic operations. So basically an insert, update or delete of a single document is done atomically, but not operations across multiple documents.
You might be able to fake a transaction by attempting a manual “roll-back” if an error occurs. A roll-back in this case would be to replace any changes with the previous values. But that’s going to manual and not have the ACID guarantees that you would get from most SQL servers.