Suppressing updated_at from being updated

Rails
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This seems like blasphemy but their is a situation where I do not want
updated_at to be updated on update… I know I know… but is their a
way?

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Don’t know if this will work, but try making a before_update filter
that finds the original object with the original updated_at and set
the object to that value…

something like

def before_update
original_record = Model.find(self.id)
self.updated_at = original_record.updated_at
end

Again, I don’t know if this is going to work. I’m guessing that the
updated_at is set by Rails after your before_update filter…

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On 23 Dec 2007, at 00:47, John K. wrote:

This seems like blasphemy but their is a situation where I do not
want updated_at to be updated on update… I know I know… but is
their a way?

You want to fiddle with ActiveRecord::Base.record_timestamps

Fred