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💎 RequireBench

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Compatibility

Compatible with MRI Ruby 2.2.0+, JRuby, and TruffleRuby. CI workflows and Appraisals are generated for MRI Ruby 2.4+. This test floor is configured by ruby.test_minimum in .kettle-jem.yml and may be higher than the gem's runtime compatibility floor when legacy Rubies are not practical for the current toolchain.

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The amazing test matrix is powered by the kettle-dev stack.

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✨ Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add require_bench

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install require_bench

⚙️ Configuration

RequireBench is disabled unless REQUIRE_BENCH is exactly "true". When enabled, require require_bench/tasks near the top of the Rakefile and use its task options to select ignored libraries and output behavior.

🔧 Basic Usage

Require the library where it will be loaded prior to any other requires you want to benchmark.

require "require_bench"

By default this gem does nothing, hacks nothing, and has zero effects.

Turn on benchmarking & output

Add an environment variable, however you normally do such things, so that in Ruby:

ENV["REQUIRE_BENCH"] == "true"

Any value other than 'true' means RequireBench is still turned off.

Handy Rake Task

For a Gem Library

Require in Rakefile:

require "bundler/setup"
require "require_bench/tasks" # Near the top, just below require 'bundler/setup'!

For Rails

Require in Rakefile:

require_relative "config/application"
require "require_bench/tasks" if ENV["REQUIRE_BENCH"] == "true" # Near the top, just below require_relative 'config/application'!

Example

When running from command line, you will see output as the Rails app boots. In the case below it ignores all gem libraries, and only tracks Rails. The output at the top shows the config being used.

$ REQUIRE_BENCH=true bundle exec rake require_bench:hello
[RequireBench] Using skip pattern: (?-mix:gems)
[RequireBench] Using include pattern: (?-mix:my_app)
[RequireBench] Using no group pattern: (?-mix:ext|config)
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.005564 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/middleware/omniauth_bypass.rb 🚥
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.001099 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/middleware/sidekiq/match_deployment_rules.rb 🚥
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.001121 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/middleware/sidekiq/request_store.rb 🚥
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.000989 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/middleware/sidekiq/clear_active_record_connections.rb 🚥
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.006890 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/middleware/sidekiq/worker_killer.rb 🚥
🚥 [RequireBench-r] ☑️   0.001990 /Volumes/🐉🩸/src/apps/my_app/lib/parsers/pku_parser.rb 🚥

[RequireBench] Slowest Loads by Library, in order
 1.   0.017653 my_app
==========
  0.017653 TOTAL

Output Options

If the output is too noisy from deep libraries you can add a regex to skip benchmarking of files that match.

export REQUIRE_BENCH_SKIP_PATTERN=activesupport,rspec

ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_SKIP_PATTERN'] must be one of:

  • a string, to be split by comma (,), then joined by pipe (|) with Regexp.union
  • a string, to be split by pipe (|), then joined by pipe (|) with Regexp.union
ENV["REQUIRE_BENCH_SKIP_PATTERN"] = "activesupport,rspec"
# or
ENV["REQUIRE_BENCH_SKIP_PATTERN"] = "activesupport|rspec"

Any file being required that matches the pattern will use the standard, rather than the benchmarked, require.

Fully qualified paths

Fully qualified paths, or any portion thereof, are fine, because the strings are always Regexp escaped.

Other ENV control variables

  • wrap/log load in addition to require
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_TRACKED_METHODS']
  • rescue errors
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_RESCUED_CLASSES']
  • log start
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_LOG_START']
  • load/require timeout
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_TIMEOUT']
  • A pattern for paths that should be included/tracked
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_INCLUDE_PATTERN']
  • Should grouping be by basename or by path?
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_GROUP_PRECEDENCE']
  • Prefer to not group some pattern (i.e. some libraries)
    • ENV['REQUIRE_BENCH_NO_GROUP_PATTERN']

If you'd like to help document any of these further, PRs are appreciated!

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🔐 Security

See SECURITY.md.

🤝 Contributing

If you need some ideas of where to help, you could work on adding more code coverage, check issues or PRs, or use the gem and think about how it could be better.

We Keep A Changelog so if you make changes, remember to update it.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more detailed instructions.

🚀 Release Instructions

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code Coverage

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🪇 Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting with this project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists agrees to follow the Contributor Covenant 2.1.

🌈 Contributors

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📌 Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 for its public API where practical. For most applications, prefer the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision.

For example:

spec.add_dependency("require_bench", "~> 1.0")
📌 Is "Platform Support" part of the public API? More details inside.

Dropping support for a platform can be a breaking change for affected users. If a release changes supported platforms, it should be called out clearly in the changelog and versioned with that impact in mind.

To get a better understanding of how SemVer is intended to work over a project's lifetime, read this article from the creator of SemVer:

See CHANGELOG.md for a list of releases.

📄 License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License: MIT.

© Copyright

See LICENSE.md for the official copyright notice.

Copyright holders
  • Copyright (c) 2018-2020, 2023, 2026 Peter H. Boling
  • Copyright (c) 2025 Aboling0

🤑 A request for help

Maintainers have teeth and need to pay their dentists. After getting laid off in an RIF in March, and encountering difficulty finding a new one, I began spending most of my time building open source tools. I'm hoping to be able to pay for my kids' health insurance this month, so if you value the work I am doing, I need your support. Please consider sponsoring me or the project.

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Package require_bench
Description 💎 Ruby app loading slowly, or never? Discover bootstrapping issues in Ruby by logging/benchmarking/timing-out/rescuing 'Kernel.require' & 'load'
Homepage https://github.com/galtzo-floss/require_bench
Source https://github.com/galtzo-floss/require_bench
License MIT
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