Profiling Ruby Code

Question

Besides ruby-prof and and the core Benchmark class, what do you use to profile your Ruby code? In particular, how do you find the bottlenecks in your code? It almost feels l

Answer 1

This is my own question, but I found a tool that's so amazing for profiling that I have to add it here:

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/03/19/flame-graphs-in-ruby-miniprofiler

Flamegraphs make the source of performance problems amazingly obvious, relative to looking at backtraces.