** This is a repost. After playing with this for a much longer amount of time I am still baffled and I didn't get any replies. Any help is VERY much appreciated. **
This one seems very strange to me.
I have a AR object that has the created_at/updated_at columns. They populate fine and they are in the DB row:
LOG: statement: select id, created_at from locations where id = 7632; id | created_at