Ruby on Rails

Okay, so it turns out that does not work either. Here is the actual
syntax:

execute "ALTER TABLE tablename CHANGE column_name column_name
TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"

You have to put the column name in twice as well as specify the datatype
again.

Also, you may be wondering why I am responding to a 7 year old
question... I came across it on google and there was NOTHING else out
there to help with this issue. Yes, I know Rails creates timestamps for
you. However, when you are polling a database that can have information
entered from other sources, it is useful to be able to do this.

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