Renaming the created_at, updated_at columns of ActiveRecord/Rails

Question

I want to rename the timestamp columns defined in timestamp.rb . Can the methods of timestamp.rb be overwritten? And what has to be done in the application that the module w

Answer 1

There is no simple way to do that. You can accomplish this either by overriding the ActiveRecord::Timestamp module, or by writing your own one to do the magic for you.

Here is how the magic works.