Answer by sameera207 for How to show SQL statements in Rails console like WEBrick?

To do this you have to enable logger, you could do this as follows.

Open the rails console:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_set :@logger, Logger.new(STDOUT)

Have a look at this link:

http://rubyquicktips.com/post/292826666/display-activerecord-generated-sql-queries-in-the