Time.now in activerecord format

Question

I need it for an unit test... how to get a time.now in the same format as active record returns for a datetime field?

Answer 1

Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Answer 2

The UTC is probably added by Rails itself. Have you checked at your database console how exactly is stored the date?

Anyway, a shorter way to do the above is Time.now.to_s(:db), but what you're probably looking for is Time.now.to_formatted_s :rfc822 (Documentation here)