Trouble comparing time with RSpec

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 4 and the rspec-rails gem 2.14. For a my object I would like to compare the current time with the updated_at object attribute after a c

Answer 1

Old post, but I hope it helps anyone who enters here for a solution. I think it's easier and more reliable to just create the date manually:

it "updates updated_at attribute" do
  freezed_time = Time.utc(2015, 1, 1, 12, 0, 0) #Put here any time you want
  Timecop.freeze(freezed_time) do
    patch :update
    @article.reload
    expect(@article.updated_at).to eq(freezed_time)
  end
end

This ensures the stored date is the right one, without doing to_x or worrying about decimals.