# Suppressing updated\_at from being updated

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suppressing-updated-at-from-being-updated/123983>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 23, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suppressing-updated-at-from-being-updated/123983 "2007-12-23T01:48:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suppressing-updated-at-from-being-updated/123983/1 "2007-12-23T01:48:36Z")

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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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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suppressing-updated-at-from-being-updated/123983/2 "2007-12-23T02:07:53Z")

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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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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suppressing-updated-at-from-being-updated/123983/3 "2007-12-23T02:19:00Z")

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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