class ActiveRecord::Base # Execute SQL manually def self.exec_sql(*args) conn = ActiveRecord::Base.connection sql = ActiveRecord::Base.send(:sanitize_sql_array, args) conn.execute(sql) end def self.exec_sql_row_count(*args) exec_sql(*args).cmd_tuples end def exec_sql(*args) ActiveRecord::Base.exec_sql(*args) end # Executes the given block +retries+ times (or forever, if explicitly given nil), # catching and retrying SQL Deadlock errors. # # Thanks to: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7427186/165668 # def self.retry_lock_error(retries=5, &block) begin yield rescue ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid => e if e.message =~ /deadlock detected/ and (retries.nil? || retries > 0) retry_lock_error(retries ? retries - 1 : nil, &block) else raise e end end end # Support for psql. If we want to support multiple RDBMs in the future we can # split this. def exec_sql_row_count(*args) exec_sql(*args).cmd_tuples end end