That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat; refactor

That’s Not a Memory Leak, It’s Bloat

<br />#:includes are Including Too Much<br />Article.find(:all, :include => [:user => [:posts => :comments]])<br /><br /><br />#:includes on a has_many<br />@articles.users.find(:all, :include => [:posts => :comments]])<br /><br /><br />#Use :select When You Must Instantiate Large Quantities of Records<br />@comment_ids = Comment.find(:all, :select => 'comments.id').collect{|comment| comment.id }<br /><br /><br />#Overfed Feeds<br />Check all the places you are making XML sandwiches. Often these controllers are written early on and don’t scale well. Maybe you have a sitemap XML feed that delivers every record under the sun to Google, or are rending some large amount of data for an API.<br /><br />