rbspy
Have a running Ruby program that you want to profile without restarting it? Want to profile a Ruby
command line program really easily? You want rbspy! rbspy can profile any Ruby program just by
running 1 simple command.
rbspy lets you profile Ruby processes that are already running. You give it a PID, and it starts
profiling. It's a sampling profiler, which means it's low overhead and safe to run in
production.
rbspy lets you record profiling data, save the raw profiling data to disk, and then analyze it in
a variety of different ways later on.
Documentation
Requirements
rbspy supports Linux*, Mac, and Windows.
Add a testimonial
Did rbspy help you make your program faster? An awesome way to thank the project is to add a success story to this GitHub issue
where people talk about ways rbspy has helped them! Hearing that rbspy is working for people is good
motivation :)
Installing
On Mac, you can install with Homebrew: brew install rbspy.
On Linux:
- Download recent release of
rbspyfrom the GitHub releases page - Unpack it
- Move the
rbspybinary to/usr/local/bin
Or have a look at Installing rbspy on our documentation.
Contributing
Pull requests that improve usability, fix bugs, or help rbspy support more operating systems are
very welcome. If you have a question, the best way to ask is to create a GitHub issue!
If you're not a very experienced Rust programmer, you're very welcome to contribute. A major reason
rbspy is written in Rust is that Rust is more approachable for beginners than C/C++.
https://www.rust-lang.org/ has great resources for learning Rust.
Building rbspy
- Install cargo from crates.io
cargo buildto buildcargo testto test
The built binary will end up at target/debug/rbspy