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

My 'ish' gem provides a nice way of handling this:

# plus/minus 5 min of input date
Time.now.ish
# override that time range like this
Time.now.ish(:offset => 1.year)

https://github.com/spilliton/ish