Overwrite created_at in tests with factories

I am writing some tests and need to seed some entries in the database that is a few days old. Sadly this seems to be hard for some reason. I want to overwrite the created_at timestamp but I cannot seem to find a way of doing so with factories.

I have tried

Using Carbon::setTestNow();. But that wont work as laravel uses Date::now() for timestamps.
Adding ['created_at' => now()->subDays(2)] to the factory, which also does not work.

Any ideas?

Tray2

3 years ago

Level 74

Can you somehow disable timestamps for the model when running a test?

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Sinnbeck

3 years ago

Best Answer

Level 102

Ah! Seems it works with the built in timetravel og laravel

$this->travelTo(now()->subDays(2));

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