I do a lot of memory and garbage analysis on my Rails apps, and in upgrading to Rails 2.3, I discovered a practical use for the new Rails Metal middleware. Dumping memory stats to my log was just sorta unreadable in a practical scenario, and was more or less entirely unusable in production. Fortunately, Metal [...]
Tag Archives: memory
Oct
09
2008
Quick tip – use anonymous blocks!
In tracking down a memory leak in one of our Rails apps today, I ran across an interesting post detailing the difference between anonymous and named blocks in Ruby, and the performance differences therein. It’s definitely worth a look, especially if you’re running in a complex environment, where new closures will be large and unwieldy. [...]