Ruby: How to measure code execution time in an IRB or Rails console

Dominik Schöler

December 13, 2013Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Paste this method into your console:

def time(&block) puts Benchmark.measure(&block) end

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Now time { Some.lengthy_task } will behave similar to the bash time command. Of course you can do much more with the Benchmark object than just putsing it – adapt to your needs.

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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2013-12-13 16:58)