<td id="text_data"> <- Bad <td id="data"> <- Good
If you store a record’s Id into an xhtml id attribute, store it directly and don’t decorate it with any text, especially when the text is only a decoration.
This obviates the need to do javascript substring manipulation when you need the number.
Cheers!
$> script/console
>> require 'benchmark'
>> result = Benchmark.measure { [your stuff here] }
>> puts result
>> xxx / 60
Divide the last number printed (the one in the parentheses) to get a rough idea of how many minutes the operation took.
I’ve had to, on a couple of occasions, fire of script/console in production and massage some data, basically apply some business logic on some Models. Sometimes this process can take a while, so, in order to provide some idea of the length of execution I can now execute this in my development environment and the staging environment.
You can also use this in scripts that you may use with script/runner.
Cheers!
