# Turn off profiling in tests

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turn-off-profiling-in-tests/162240>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 7, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turn-off-profiling-in-tests/162240 "2009-03-07T11:58:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tobi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tobi)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/turn-off-profiling-in-tests/162240/1 "2009-03-07T11:58:13Z")

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Hi all,

Is there a way to turn off profiling output when running app tests?  
It can be done by rake test 2\>/dev/null because profiling output is  
written to STDERR, but I want it off per default.

Thanks

Tobi