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gkaykck
gkaykck

Reputation: 2367

Change recorded variables created_at property

Is there a way to change a database records "created_at" variable after it created?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6500

Answers (2)

jleven
jleven

Reputation: 79

If you want to store a creation date, you may not want to use the default timestamp behavior.

Use a before_save filter, and a custom field 'creation_date'

class MyModel
  before_save :set_creation_date

  def set_creation_date
    self.creation_date ||= Date.today
  end
end

That way, if you set creation_date yourself, it will get saved to the db with that value, but otherwise Date.today will.

Upvotes: 0

sepp2k
sepp2k

Reputation: 370132

Sure, since rails 2.3 you can change it like any other column: get the object from the database, set the value for the column, save it.

my_model = MyModel.find(42)
my_model.created_at = Date.today
my_model.save

Upvotes: 5

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