Visualize with Ruby-Prof Printers
Ruby-prof can generate several types of human-readable reports. I find three of them to be the most useful: flat, call graph, and call stack reports. (You can see the full list in the ruby-prof documentation.)[10] Each serves a different purpose. But we’re learning by example here, and to show them to you, I’ll need a more sophisticated example to profile.
chp4/app.rb | |
| require 'date' |
| require 'rubygems' |
| require 'ruby-prof' |
| |
| # This generates CSV like |
| # 1, John McTest, 1980-07-01 |
| # 2, Peter McGregor, 1985-12-23 |
| # 3, Sylvia McIntosh, 1989-06-13 |
| def generate_test_data |
| 50000.times.map do |i| |
| name = ["John", "Peter", "Sylvia"][rand(3)] + " " + |
| ["McTest", "McGregor", "McIntosh" ... |
Get Ruby Performance Optimization now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.