title: Profiling Ruby Code
body: <p>Besides ruby-prof and and the core Benchmark class, what do you use to profile your Ruby code? In particular, how do you find the bottlenecks in your code? It almost feels like I need to work on my own little tool just to figure out where all the time is being spent in my code.</p>
  
  <p>I realize ruby-prof provides this, but the output is frankly very confusing and doesn't make it easy to find out which actual blocks of your own code are the source of the issue (it tells you about which method calls took the most time though). So I'm not really getting as much out of it as I'd like, and haven't really been able to make use of it.</p>
  
  <p>Perhaps I'm doing it wrong? Are there alternatives? Google searches don't bring up anything for me.</p>