If this has been discussed before, pardon me. My search skills might not be up to the task of finding it. Does Rails have automagic support for created/modified columns like cakePHP does?
Thanks in advance.
Guessing a bit about cakePHP, I'd say yes.
If you create a datetime called created_at, or created_on it will be automatically initialized when each record is first saved. a field named either updated_at, or updated_on will set each time the record is saved.