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Custom ActiveRecord timestamps April 27th, 2009

Some legacy databases have already defined their own created_at or updated_at fields. They can be easily filled in with ActiveRecord before_save filters, but after implementing this behaviour a few times the urge arose to write something reusable, so I created the custom_timestamps plugin.

With custom_timestamps you can easily define the columns you want to be updated on creation/change

class LegacyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_create_column :creation_time
  set_update_column :change_time
end

The plugin can be found on github.