A new helper to freeze time in Rails 5.2
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1 min readJun 8, 2018
This one is a simple quality-of-life improvement.
So, in Rails 5.2, instead of you doing:
travel_to(Time.current) do
# ...
end
You can actually use this new freeze_time
helper:
freeze_time do
# ...
end
Internally, both of these methods are just mocking Time.current
or Time.now
to return given time, essentially “freezing the time”. I’m never a fan of travel_to(current_time)
as I feel that it reads weird. I’m going to just use freeze_time
from now on if the situation allows.