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Monitoring Ruby

Community
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Debugging

Developing Ruby and RoR apps might be easy - but what to do when something goes wrong, the interpreter misbehaves or memory leaks spring up. We look at the current options for taking a peek inside Ruby applications.

Ruby on Mac OS X Leopard with DTrace, XCode and Interface Builder support

Community
Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Dynamic Languages,
Operating Systems

The newly released Mac OS X Leopard ships with the Ruby 1.8.6 and various Ruby libraries and tools installed. Leopard also includes DTrace probes for profiling Ruby, XCode and Interface Builder support and more.

Using Dtrace to Improve Rails Performance

Community
Ruby
Topics
Code Analysis,
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails

InfoQ investigates how three companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool, to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue.

DTrace: Dynamic Tracing with a Java API

Community
Java
Topics
Debugging

DTrace is an open-source dynamic tracing framework originally written for Solaris 10 and coming soon to OS X, Linux and BSD systems. A Java API for DTrace is available, allowing you to run DTrace scripts and allowing you to present the output in a more meaningful way.