watching activerecord

April 15th, 2008 • Uncategorized

# This greatly helps learning what ActiveRecord does!

# All credits go to Jamis Buck at
# http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/31/more-on-watching-activerecord

# environment.rb
def log_to(stream)
  ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(stream)
  ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections!
end

# in irb or script/console or environment.rb
log_to(STDOUT)

# or create new streams
buffer = StringIO.new
log_to(buffer)
puts buffer.string

Tags: rails, rails helper

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