This is nothing new, but, having seen enough Rails developers using custom helpers to do the same thing, I thought it might warrant a quick tip.
If you’re entering dates/times in your fixtures, you’re probably familiar with this trick:
---
item1:
id: 1
name: foo
created_at: <%= 3.days.ago.to_s(:db) %>
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