Rails - Aug 2007 - ActiveRecord: created_at/_on / updated_at/_on data type

Quick question, before I monkey up my db.
In ActiveRecord, regarding the magic column names created_at
created_on updated_at updated_on

They''re all mentioned in AWDWR and the API docs, but ...
What data type do they each need to use? timestamp? datetime?
What is the formatting returned as? A Ruby Time class object?
Are they really updated automatically on creation / changes to a db
row?

Thanks for any help,
John Joyce


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Hi, in the AWDwR on page 319 in the section tiltled "Magic Column
Names", it
says that _on will be mapped to date columns and _at will be mapped to
datetime.
Good luck,

-Conrad

On 8/11/07, dangerwillrobinsondanger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
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wrote:
>
>
> Quick question, before I monkey up my db.
> In ActiveRecord, regarding the magic column names created_at
> created_on updated_at updated_on
>
> They''re all mentioned in AWDWR and the API docs, but ...
> What data type do they each need to use? timestamp? datetime?
> What is the formatting returned as? A Ruby Time class object?
> Are they really updated automatically on creation / changes to a db
> row?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> John Joyce
>
>
> >
>
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Thanks, found it already. After posting of course.


Used rails console to find the return types. Glad I learned Ruby
before Rails! irb (console) is a good friend!


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