rails/rails — pull request #7159 by parndt (2012-07-25 23:46:38+00:00)
Title: Backport update_columns to Rails 3.2

update_attribute is deprecated in Rails 3.2.7.rc1 in favour of update_column

update_column is then deprecated in Rails 4.0 and I think that it makes no sense to recommend adopting it only to require changing to update_columns in the very next release.