DateTime.now.utc in fixtures

Testing RSpec
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I have the following in my fixtures:

publish_date: <%= DateTime.now.utc - 1.day %>

But ‘DateTime.now.utc’ always evaluates to my system time. Does anyone
have any ideas?

Thanks,

Russell.

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Russell Quinn wrote:

I have the following in my fixtures:

publish_date:<%= DateTime.now.utc - 1.day %>

But ‘DateTime.now.utc’ always evaluates to my system time. Does anyone
have any ideas?

You might not like it, but what about fixing the date?

3

Hi,

It might sound strange, but you usually stub Time.now
Read here: RSpec'ing with Time.now · devroom.io

Am 09.10.2010 um 02:20 schrieb Russell Quinn:

I have the following in my fixtures:

publish_date: <%= DateTime.now.utc - 1.day %>

But ‘DateTime.now.utc’ always evaluates to my system time. Does anyone
have any ideas?

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Great. Thanks for all the answers.

Russell.

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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Thomas R. Koll [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

It might sound strange, but you usually stub Time.now
Read here: RSpec'ing with Time.now · devroom.io

I used to do this myself even with Test::Unit
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2007/07/18/time-flies-while-youre-having-fun-testing

More recently I’ve been using timecop

http://github.com/jtrupiano/timecop

It allows time to be either frozen or offset, and it stubs Time,
DateTime and Date to do the right thing.

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