For validation, and doing server side computation must update all associated changed records

[catmando]

In commit 3651676 a fix was made so that ActiveRecord#changed? would accept optionally the attribute that was changing. I.e. Job.changed? means anything in the job changes, vs Job.changed(:name) means did the name attribute change.

Before Job.changed?(:name) was returning the same as Job.changed?

When this fix was made the gather_records method stopped including has_many records that had changed when gathering the parent during a save. This is actually correct behavior according to Rails. However it is a breaking deprecation for some apps BTW.

The bigger problem is that during validations or computations of server_methods we DO want to save (temporarily) ALL related changed records so the computations can use any values that have changed on the client during the server computation.

So we need a flag (perhaps it is the same as the force flag) that can be used to force ALL related changed records to be saved.