# shows the effect of using .all_hashes instead of looping on each hash # run it by substiting in a 'long' [many row] query for the query variable and toggling use_all_hashes here at the top # note that we load all the rows first, then run .all_hashes on the result [to see more easily the effect of all hashes] # on my machine and a 200_000 row table, it took 3.38s versus 3.65s require 'rubygems' require 'mysqlplus' begin Mysql.real_connect('fakehost','root', '', 'local_leadgen_dev') rescue Mysql::Error end begin Mysql.real_connect('localhost','root', '', 'faketable') rescue Mysql::Error end begin Mysql.real_connect('localhost', 'root', 'pass', 'db', 3307)# bad port rescue Mysql::Error end print "pass"