@jdutil @huoxito I have absolutely no style preference about any of this and I'll do anything that you guys suggest  that works. But `update_attributes` won't work here. If you look at [the implementation of `update_attributes`](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/c2193c11ad215d3a2d7d35960630b3e1902a5082/activeresource/lib/active_resource/base.rb#L1313), you'll see that it just sets the attributes then calls `save`.