Measure and Benchmark Time for Ruby Methods

Question

How can i measure the time taken by a method and the individual statements in that method in Ruby. If you see the below method i want to measure the total time taken by the meth

Answer 1

You could use the Time object. (Time Docs)

For example,

start = Time.now
# code to time
finish = Time.now

diff = finish - start

diff would be in seconds, as a floating point number.

EDIT: end is reserved.