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What are database transaction isolation levels in Rails?
Updated May 24, 2026
Short answer
Isolation levels define how transaction integrity is maintained under concurrency.
Deep explanation
Levels include read uncommitted, read committed, repeatable read, and serializable. Rails relies on DB configuration but allows transactional blocks.
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