Railsters: When you use ActiveRecord, it conglomerates your has_many directives together to produce elaborate queries.
Sometimes these might be a little too elaborate. I wrote a test helper function that lets you peek under the hood, like this: sql = inspect_sql do Post.find(:all, :include => { :user => :user_level }, :conditions => { :'user_levels.name' => 'Moderator' }) end pp sql.statements The method inspect_sql{} returns an array object full of data about your queries. It comes with accessors (.statements, .keys, .tables, [2], etc.) that let you drill down to specifics. The trace statement 'pp sql.statements' will emit all the SQL SELECT statements that inspect_sql collected. To optimize those statements, you can use assert_no_match (or assert{ statement !~ /something/ } ) to catch and forbid inefficient or incorrect statements. This helps you tune your database without writing brute-force tests that simply load thousands of records, query them, and time the results. Get inspect_sql with the assert_efficient_sql gem, and read more about it here: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/09/inspect_sql.html -- Phlip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---