Best way to create random DateTime in Rails

Question

What is the best way to generate a random DateTime in Ruby/Rails? Trying to create a nice seeds.rb file. Going to use it like so:

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Answer 1

Another approach using DateTime's advance

def rand_date
  # return a random date within 100 days of today in both past and future directions.
  n = rand(-100..100)
  Date.today.advance(days: n)
end