Is it possible to ignore irrelevant methods when profiling ruby applications?

Question

While using ruby-prof, printed out in graph-html mode, the report for one method says (with some snipping)

%Total       %Self       Total       Self    Wait    C         


        

Answer 1

Version 0.9.0 of ruby-prof allows method elimination. For example, to eliminate Integer#times, use

result = RubyProf.stop
result.eliminate_methods!([/Integer#times/])

so that

def method_a
  5.times {method_b}
end

will indicate the relationship between method_a and method_b directly.