BloatCheck is yet another tool for debugging bloat and memory leaks in ruby projects. This one has the feature that you can wrap any bit of code with a “BloatCheck” and it will log elapsed time, and memory & object growth.
Plus you can include it in any rails controller to log that same info per request.
Gemfile:
gem 'bloat_check'
Put this line anywhere:
BloatCheck.log("some label")
and it will write to the log the current time, process memory size, and 5 ruby objects classes with most instances, prefixed with “BLOAT” and your label.
Wrap it around any existing code, such as
BloatCheck.log("here's looking at you") do some_suspec_computation() and_more() end
And it will write to the log the deltas: elapsed time, change in memory size, and 5 ruby object classes that had the largest increase in number of instances.
In a rails controller, you can do
class MyController < ApplicationController include BloatCheck::WrapRequests # etc. end
and every request will log the deltas incurred during that request.
BloatCheck is slow (calls system ‘ps’, and runs through ObjectSpace#each_object), so you might want to disable it in your unit tests or integration tests. Do that via:
BloatCheck.disable = true
Put this, e.g. in your spec/spec_helper.rb file
By default, BloatCheck logs to the Rails logger if Rails is defined, or to STDOUT otherwise. But you can specify your own logger using
BloatCheck.logger = Logger.new(...)
Has been tested on MRI 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2
Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.