# Peformance tuning tools

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peformance-tuning-tools/106097>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 6, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peformance-tuning-tools/106097 "2007-06-06T12:46:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tyche](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@Tyche](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tyche)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peformance-tuning-tools/106097/1 "2007-06-06T12:46:50Z")

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Hi,  
I am kind of new to RoR and currently experimenting with a dummy site  
of mine. I have MySQL as database.I would like to know if we have any  
tools to check database performance. Do we have any plugin for Rad  
rails for this purpose?

Thanks in advance,  
Sonia Sharma

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**Author:** ![Tyche](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@Tyche](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tyche)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/peformance-tuning-tools/106097/2 "2007-06-06T21:52:38Z")

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Your best bet is probably to regularly look at (or tail -f) your  
development log file to see how much work, how many queries, your  
application is making to your db. It’s a surefire way to tune the  
amount of SQL you’re asking within your application. It’s worked for  
me!

- J