How to set date column to date of creation (Rails)?

Question

This is a simple question. I want to create a column that stores the date of creation - not the datetime which created_at and created_on do. How do I do this?

Edit: I mean the date of the model record. So for example, when a user creates a micropost, I would like to store just the date, and not the datetime.

Answer 1

Pavan answered my question in the comment. If you add a column with Date as its datatype, it will automatically set the field to date of creation.

Answer 2

Create an additional column inside table by creating an extra migration to add that extra column and save the below value while saving the record:

Time.now.s­trftime("%­Y-%m-%d")

Hope it helps :)