Rails set default DateTime to now

Question

In my app I have teams and each team has a game time every week. I want the game times to be set to \'now\' as a default. My table is set up like so

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Answer 1

Since Rails 5 you can make a migration like this:

change_column_default :users, :wk1_time, -> { 'CURRENT_TIMESTAMP' }

In my mind this is the best option because it not database specific answer.