http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/09/01/mem_inspect-and-png-gems en-us 40 <a href="http://blog.segment7.net">Eric Hodel</a> has announced the release of <a href="http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/08/31/mem_inspect-and-png">mem_inspect and png</a> gems. <a href="http://blog.zenspider.com">Ryan Davis</a> has an excellent <a href="http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/08/ruby_memory_vis.html">movie assembled</a> showing output from these gems. The beauty of the code behind mem_inspect, like looking at the sun, will make your eyes water if you look at it too long. Seriously though everyone should check it out and gain some Ruby I.Q. points. The excellent <a href="http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/RubyInline/">RubyInline</a> is used internally and there is a rake task that builds a patched version of Ruby from source, wicked cool stuff guys!<br /><br /> I think this should start people thinking about better ways to gain insight into the Ruby memory heap, at least until <a href="http://www.atdot.net/yarv/">YARV</a> arrives and changes the playing field altogether. Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:17:00 +0000 urn:uuid:2d10bfc6-694a-4a1e-b417-56db19d0ea92 Steve Longdo http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/09/01/mem_inspect-and-png-gems ruby memory