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@amatsuda, during his RailsConf talk this past year, presented a benchmark that showed `Time.zone.now` (an Active Support joint) performing 24.97x slower than Ruby's `Time.now`. Rails master appears to be a _bit_ faster than that, currently clocking in at 18.25x slower than `Time.now`. Here's the exact benchmark data for that: ``` Warming up -------------------------------------- Time.now 127.923k i/100ms Time.zone.now 10.275k i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- Time.now 1.946M (± 5.9%) i/s - 9.722M in 5.010236s Time.zone.now 106.625k (± 4.3%) i/s - 534.300k in 5.020343s Comparison: Time.now: 1946220.1 i/s Time.zone.now: 106625.5 i/s - 18.25x slower ``` What if I told you we could make `Time.zone.now` _even_ faster? Well, that's exactly what this patch accomplishes. When creating `ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone` objects, we try to convert the provided time to be in a UTC format. All this patch does is, in the method where we convert a provided time to UTC, check if the provided time is already UTC, and is a `Time` object and then return early if that is the case, This sidesteps having to continue on, and create a new `Time` object from scratch. Here's the exact benchmark data for my patch: ``` Warming up -------------------------------------- Time.now 124.136k i/100ms Time.zone.now 26.260k i/100ms Calculating ------------------------------------- Time.now 1.894M (± 6.4%) i/s - 9.434M in 5.000153s Time.zone.now 301.654k (± 4.3%) i/s - 1.523M in 5.058328s Comparison: Time.now: 1893958.0 i/s Time.zone.now: 301653.7 i/s - 6.28x slower ``` With this patch, we go from `Time.zone.now` being 18.25x slower than `Time.now` to only being 6.28x slower than `Time.now`. I'd obviously love some verification on this patch, since these numbers sound pretty interesting... :) This is the benchmark-ips report I have been using while working on this: ```ruby require 'benchmark/ips' Time.zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' Benchmark.ips do |x| x.report('Time.now') { Time.now } x.report('Time.zone.now') { Time.zone.now } x.compare! end ``` cc @amatsuda cc performance folks @tenderlove and @schneems ![Pretty... pretty... pretty good.](https://media.giphy.com/media/bWeR8tA1QV4cM/giphy.gif) |
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Welcome to Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Understanding the MVC pattern is key to understanding Rails. MVC divides your application into three layers, each with a specific responsibility.
The Model layer represents your domain model (such as Account, Product,
Person, Post, etc.) and encapsulates the business logic that is specific to
your application. In Rails, database-backed model classes are derived from
ActiveRecord::Base
. Active Record allows you to present the data from
database rows as objects and embellish these data objects with business logic
methods. You can read more about Active Record in its README.
Although most Rails models are backed by a database, models can also be ordinary
Ruby classes, or Ruby classes that implement a set of interfaces as provided by
the Active Model module. You can read more about Active Model in its README.
The Controller layer is responsible for handling incoming HTTP requests and
providing a suitable response. Usually this means returning HTML, but Rails controllers
can also generate XML, JSON, PDFs, mobile-specific views, and more. Controllers load and
manipulate models, and render view templates in order to generate the appropriate HTTP response.
In Rails, incoming requests are routed by Action Dispatch to an appropriate controller, and
controller classes are derived from ActionController::Base
. Action Dispatch and Action Controller
are bundled together in Action Pack. You can read more about Action Pack in its
README.
The View layer is composed of "templates" that are responsible for providing appropriate representations of your application's resources. Templates can come in a variety of formats, but most view templates are HTML with embedded Ruby code (ERB files). Views are typically rendered to generate a controller response, or to generate the body of an email. In Rails, View generation is handled by Action View. You can read more about Action View in its README.
Active Record, Active Model, Action Pack, and Action View can each be used independently outside Rails. In addition to that, Rails also comes with Action Mailer (README), a library to generate and send emails; Active Job (README), a framework for declaring jobs and making them run on a variety of queueing backends; Action Cable (README), a framework to integrate WebSockets with a Rails application; and Active Support (README), a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions that are useful for Rails, and may also be used independently outside Rails.
Getting Started
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Install Rails at the command prompt if you haven't yet:
$ gem install rails
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At the command prompt, create a new Rails application:
$ rails new myapp
where "myapp" is the application name.
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Change directory to
myapp
and start the web server:$ cd myapp $ rails server
Run with
--help
or-h
for options. -
Using a browser, go to
http://localhost:3000
and you'll see: "Yay! You’re on Rails!" -
Follow the guidelines to start developing your application. You may find the following resources handy:
Contributing
We encourage you to contribute to Ruby on Rails! Please check out the Contributing to Ruby on Rails guide for guidelines about how to proceed. Join us!
Everyone interacting in Rails and its sub-projects' codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the Rails code of conduct.
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License
Ruby on Rails is released under the MIT License.