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Ruby Prof 1.0

ruby-prof's is one of the oldest gems around, dating all the way back to 2005 I did a fair of development back in 2008 to 2013 but its been six years since I've meaningfully...

ruby-prof 0.7.0

I'm happy to announce the release of ruby-prof 070, the superfast, open-source, Ruby profiler that helps you find bottlenecks in your Ruby code This release was a joint...

Must Read Rails Performance Article

A couple of days ago, Alex Dymo from Pluron sent me an email describing some of the great work he has done optimizing the performance of their online project managment software...

Tick, tick, tick

While analyzing Rails performance, I stumbled upon the fact that parsing timestamps in ActiveRecord is very slow (I'll post more about that in an upcoming blog) A bit of...

Announcing ruby-prof 0.5.0

Make sure to grab the latest version of ruby-prof, currently 052, which includes some performance tweaks and bug fixes A year has passed since the last release of ruby-prof If...

Profiling Ruby Code

Pat Eyler has written a nice set of articles about profiling Ruby code He shows how to use the built in Ruby profiler as well as ruby-prof (my personal favorite :) He talks a...

ruby-prof 0.4.0 with call graphs

Update: ruby-prof 050 is now available and has significantly more features than 040, including better threading support, rails support, call tree output, etc After porting...

Typo Feed Content Types

Being a good web netizen, every few days I check that my blog and Yue's blog validate using the W3C feed validator (well someone has to serve valid content - of course having...

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