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Jonathan Hwa
Jonathan Hwa

Reputation: 365

Get the time/date a record was created

In Rails, is there an automatically instantiated field that has this information, or would I have to create a separate column in the model to keep track of it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 670

Answers (2)

atw13
atw13

Reputation: 719

If you have columns called created_at and updated_at, they will update automatically. You can abbreviate that in your migration with t.timestamps, which now shows up by default (or did last time I created a model). If you're talking about an object stored in the database, there's no information about it other than what's in the table.

On a side note, if you're talking about an instance of an ActiveRecord it's best to say "record" instead of "object." The latter refers to any object that you instantiate, be it a record that you retrieve or just a simple Foo.new.

Upvotes: 4

ramblex
ramblex

Reputation: 3057

Rails automatically stores when each record is created in created_at it also stores when the record was last updated in updated_at

Upvotes: 1

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