Is there a way to avoid automatically updating Rails timestamp fields?
Do this in a migration or in a rake task (or in the new database seeds if you’re on edge rails): ActiveRecord::Base.record_timestamps = false begin run_the_code_that_imports_the_data ensure ActiveRecord::Base.record_timestamps = true # don’t forget to enable it again! end You can safely set created_at and updated_at manually, Rails won’t complain. Note: This also works on individual … Read more