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ActiveRecord SQL in script/console

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Rails’ ActiveRecord displays the exact SQL queries it performs into the development log. It is inconvenient to watch this log while you’re working in the `script/console` environment, however, and most advice for redirecting that log to STDOUT seemed not to work. Thanks to [Jamis Buck](http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/1/31/more-on-watching-activerecord “More on watching ActiveRecord”), though, the solution has come to…