Disable Rails SQL logging in console

Is there a way to disable SQL query logging when I'm executing commands in the console? Ideally, it would be great if I can just disable it and re-enable it with a command in the console.

I'm trying to debug something and using "puts" to print out some relevant data. However, the sql query output is making it hard to read.

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Edit: I found another solution, since setting the logger to nil sometimes raised an error, if something other than my code tried to call logger.warn

Instead of setting the logger to nil you can set the level of the logger to 1.

ActiveRecord::Base.logger.level = 1 # or Logger::INFO

To turn it off:

old_logger = ActiveRecord::Base.logger
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = nil

To turn it back on:

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = old_logger

Here's a variation I consider somewhat cleaner, that still allows potential other logging from AR. In config/environments/development.rb :

config.after_initialize do
  ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Rails.logger.clone
  ActiveRecord::Base.logger.level = Logger::INFO
end

This might not be a suitable solution for the console, but Rails has a method for this problem: Logger#silence

ActiveRecord::Base.logger.silence do
  # the stuff you want to be silenced
end

For Rails 4 you can put the following in an environment file:

# /config/environments/development.rb

config.active_record.logger = nil

In case someone wants to actually knock out SQL statement logging (without changing logging level, and while keeping the logging from their AR models):

The line that writes to the log (in Rails 3.2.16, anyway) is the call to debug in lib/active_record/log_subscriber.rb:50.

That debug method is defined by ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber.

So we can knock out the logging by overwriting it like so:

module ActiveSupport
  class LogSubscriber
    def debug(*args, &block)
    end
  end
end

I used this: config.log_level = :info edit-in config/environments/performance.rb

Working great for me, rejecting SQL output, and show only rendering and important info.

In Rails 3.2 I'm doing something like this in config/environment/development.rb:

module MyApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    console do
      ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new( Rails.root.join("log", "development.log") )
    end
  end
end

Just as an FYI, in Rails 2 you can do

ActiveRecord::Base.silence { <code you don't want to log goes here> }

Obviously the curly braces could be replaced with a do end block if you wanted.

I had to solve this for ActiveRecord 6, and I based my answer on fakeleft's response, but it wasn't quite right, since it was suppressing other logging such as the logging of nested views. What I did was created config/initializers/activerecord_logger.rb:

# Suppress SQL statement logging if necessary
# This is a dirty, dirty trick, but it works:
if ENV["ACTIVERECORD_HIDE_SQL"].present?
  module ActiveRecord
    class LogSubscriber
      def sql(event)
      end
    end
  end
end

The log subscriber in AR 6 has a sql event that we want to hide, so this is very narrowly targeted to skip that event.

I use activerecord 6.0.3.3 and I had to include ActiveSupport::LoggerSilence

include ActiveSupport::LoggerSilence

ActiveSupport::LoggerSilence.silence do
    ## everything you want to silence
end

This however did not work with anything related to creating or deleting SQL tables like ActiveRecord::Migration.drop_table. For this to be silenced I added:

ActiveRecord::Schema.verbose = false