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.

Answer 2

If you don't mind low-tech, maybe you want to consider this. All you need is to be able to pause the debugger. Guaranteed, it will quickly find anything you can find any other way, and not show you any irrelevant code.