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

I haven't tried this myself but you could create a random integer between two dates using the number of seconds since epoch. For example, to get a random date for the last week.

end = Time.now
start = (end - 1.week).to_i
random_date = Time.at(rand(end.to_i - start)) + start

Of course you end up with a Time object instead of a DateTime but I'm sure you can covert from here.