Making ActiveResource 34x faster: QActiveResource

  module HashAccessor
    def method_missing(method)
      value = self[method] || self[method.to_s]
      raise NoMethodError.new unless value
      value
    end
  end

  Hash.send :include, HashAccessor

  module ActiveResource
    class Base
      def self.find(from=nil, params={})
        resource = from == :all ? self.collection_name : self.element_name
        values = QAR::Resource.new(self.site.to_s, resource).find(from, params)
      end
    end
  end

Well done! And thank you for open sourcing this.

Well done!

My company noticed an absolutely whopping performance boost when we dropped XML in favor of JSON for a transport format, fwiw. Ruby has quite possibly the slowest XML parsing libraries on the block (even when you wrap libxml), and we avoid parsing XML at all costs now.

More people should look at it. Even the datastructures are pretty much a joy to use.