Benchmark If you have a bit of code that you would like to benchmark across several versions of ruby all at once you can now do this easily with RVM. Given: ∴ cat increment.rb y=0 1000.times do |x| y = x + 1 end We can benchmark this code against multiple ruby versions very easily: ∴ rvm 1.8.6,1.8.7,1.9.1,ree benchmark increment.rb Documentation: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/set/benchmark/