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)? 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? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
