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Inspect SQL queries generated by Ruby on Rails

I’m currently working on a rewrite of XCStorm, my website dedicated to crawling the web for news about cross country skiing.

Preview of the new filter system at XCStorm

I’m using Heroku for hosting and for development I’m running SQLite and for staging/production its Postgres (I know its bad practice to mix…). Anyway, I found myself in a situation where I needed to compare SQL queries generated by the ORM.

Create a file named .irbrc and put this into it:

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)

Afterwards, start your Rails console and enter your query.

The reason I’m mixing database adapters is because at this point it doesn’t matter since the data won’t be complex and its easier for my partner to setup and interact with the database.