app/controllers/digital_assets_controller.rb in daengine-0.6.22 vs app/controllers/digital_assets_controller.rb in daengine-0.6.23

@@ -27,11 +27,24 @@
     respond_with(@digital_asset)
   end
 
   def update
     da_passed = params[:digital_asset]
-    da = DigitalAsset.find_or_initialize_by(digital_asset_id: da_passed[:digital_asset_id])
+    digital_asset_id = params[:id] || da_passed[:digital_asset_id]
+    assets = DigitalAsset.any_of({digital_asset_id: digital_asset_id}, {path: da_passed[:path]}) 
+    case assets.count
+    when 0 #creating
+      da = assets.build
+      da.digital_asset_id = digital_asset_id
+    when 1 # updating single
+      da = assets.first
+    else #duplicate path / id combo
+      assets.delete_all
+      da = DigitalAsset.find_or_initialize_by(digital_asset_id: digital_asset_id)
+    end
     creating = da.new?
+    # da_passed.delete(:digital_asset_id)  # remove the ID from params hash
+    da_passed[:digital_asset_id] = digital_asset_id  # the url ID wins
     da.update_attributes! da_passed
     if(creating)
       head :created, location: digital_asset_path(da)
     else
       head :ok