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diff --git a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md index d3a96daf7b..133ef58fd6 100644 --- a/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md +++ b/guides/source/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.md @@ -215,6 +215,36 @@ Rails follows a simple set of coding style conventions: The above are guidelines - please use your best judgment in using them. +### Benchmark Your Code + +If your change has an impact on the performance of Rails, please use the +[benchmark-ips](https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips) gem to provide +benchmark results for comparison. + +Here's an example of using benchmark-ips: + +```ruby +require 'benchmark/ips' + +Benchmark.ips do |x| + x.report('addition') { 1 + 2 } + x.report('addition with send') { 1.send(:+, 2) } +end +``` + +This will generate a report with the following information: + +``` +Calculating ------------------------------------- + addition 69114 i/100ms + addition with send 64062 i/100ms +------------------------------------------------- + addition 5307644.4 (±3.5%) i/s - 26539776 in 5.007219s + addition with send 3702897.9 (±3.5%) i/s - 18513918 in 5.006723s +``` + +Please see the benchmark/ips [README](https://github.com/evanphx/benchmark-ips/blob/master/README.md) for more information. + ### Running Tests It is not customary in Rails to run the full test suite before pushing |