bullet VS Annotate

Compare bullet vs Annotate and see what are their differences.

bullet

help to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading (by flyerhzm)

Annotate

Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info (by ctran)
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bullet

Posts with mentions or reviews of bullet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
  • What was the name of the gem that finds all unindexed foreign keys?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 18 Apr 2023
  • Ban 1+N in Django
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2023
    Rails has Bullet[0] to help identify and warn you against N+1

    Does Django have anything active? Quick search revealed nplusone[1] but its been dead since 2018.

    [0] https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

    [1] https://github.com/jmcarp/nplusone

  • Inherited rails app - what the hell are all these rack timeout lines in the log?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 19 Jan 2023
    Without seeing more of the app, it's tough to say for certain, but one gem you might find helpful is the [bullet](https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet) gem -- set this up in the app then start browsing around the app in development. If you have any N+1 queries or other minor optimizations that could be done it will inform you about them.
  • A Guide to Memoization in Ruby
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2023
    Getting rid of N+1 queries - This can help improve the speed of an app. The Bullet or Prosopite gems can give a lending hand here. The N+1 Dilemma — Bullet or Prosopite? entails a brief comparison of both.
  • Understanding N and 1 queries problem
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2023
    There's a Ruby gem called Bullet that identifies and warns developers about N+1 problems. You can also have it fail tests if detected.

    I don't know if the approach is possible with every ORM or if it's just leveraging some Ruby perks, but I can't think of a good reason why you wouldn't use the equivalent everywhere.

    https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

  • Help with N+1 problem.
    1 project | /r/rails | 6 Nov 2022
    You might consider adding the bullet gem as a development requirement and see what it tells you, it's generally pretty good at spotting n-queries and letting you know how to fix them.
  • Understanding and Fixing N+1 Query
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2022
    As a Rails developer, recently I found Bullet [0] which helps massively in dealing with eager loading. For some reason I expected the framework to manage this sort of thing for me, even when Rails actually does a ton out of the box already. Only while refactoring I picked up on queries dragging performance. Oh well...

    [0] https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet

  • How do you find the cause of slowness in your app?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 26 Jul 2022
    This is good advice, it'll likely pick out some glaring issues right away. I would generally recommend looking at DB queries here too and recommend Bullet, but most software like DataDog, AppSignal etc will often also point N+1 and issues like it out.
  • Yet Another Post About N + 1 Queries
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Jul 2022
    In order to find all those N + 1 queries that are slowing down in your application, the community recommends using the Bullet gem.
  • What are the main suspects in a really slow Rails app?
    4 projects | /r/rails | 21 Jun 2022

Annotate

Posts with mentions or reviews of Annotate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bullet and Annotate you can also consider the following projects:

prosopite - :mag: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false positives / false negatives

Apipie - Ruby on Rails API documentation tool

rack-mini-profiler - Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

RDoc - RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects.

Peek - Take a peek into your Rails applications.

YARD - YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!"

Derailed Benchmarks - Go faster, off the Rails - Benchmarks for your whole Rails app

GitHub Changelog Generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

benchmark-ips - Provides iteration per second benchmarking for Ruby

rspec_api_documentation - Automatically generate API documentation from RSpec

ruby-prof - A ruby profiler. See https://ruby-prof.github.io for more information.

Asciidoctor - :gem: A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML 5, DocBook 5, and other formats.