Saving multiple objects in a single call in rails
- by CaptnCraig
I have a method in rails that is doing something like this:
a = Foo.new("bar")
a.save
b = Foo.new("baz")
b.save
...
x = Foo.new("123", :parent_id => a.id)
x.save
...
z = Foo.new("zxy", :parent_id => b.id)
z.save
The problem is this takes longer and longer the more entities I add. I suspect this is because it has to hit the database for every record. Since they are nested, I know I can't save the children before the parents are saved, but I would like to save all of the parents at once, and then all of the children. It would be nice to do something like:
a = Foo.new("bar")
b = Foo.new("baz")
...
saveall(a,b,...)
x = Foo.new("123", :parent_id => a.id)
...
z = Foo.new("zxy", :parent_id => b.id)
saveall(x,...,z)
That would do it all in only two database hits. Is there an easy way to do this in rails, or am I stuck doing it one at a time?
