Unexpected SQL queries to Postgres database on Rails/Heroku

Question

I was diving into a really long request to one of my Rails applications using NewRelic and found a number of SQL queries that appear entirely foreign that are taking up a signif

Answer 1

are queries generated from user input in your application? if so, if you don't have controls on user input, then maybe it's an sql injection from someone trying to hack your app.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection

i'm not real familiar with rails, so i don't know if it has automatically created queries that you as the developer don't know about, but i wouldn't think so.