Comments on Flavor-iffic: Fairy-Wing Wrapup: Nokogiri Performance

s/background/backend/

2011-05-18T18:53:54.086-04:00

s/background/backend/

ActiveSupport's XMLMini module is what is used...

2011-05-18T18:49:08.004-04:00

ActiveSupport's XMLMini module is what is used by from_xml, and you can change what background it uses with something like:

ActiveSupport::XMLMini.backend = :nokogiri

... or :nokogirisax, :libxml, :libxmlsax, and a few others. It defaults to REXML, unfortunately.

Check it out:
Hash.from_xml

ActiveSupport::XMLMini

I wasn't suggesting adding Nokogiri to ActiveS...

2011-05-18T15:40:14.108-04:00

I wasn't suggesting adding Nokogiri to ActiveSupport. I was suggesting that someone build a gem that implemented #from_xml using Nokogiri, and that could be used in place of those ActiveSupport methods.

I'm not too sure that using Nokigiri's par...

2011-05-18T14:06:42.103-04:00

I'm not too sure that using Nokigiri's parser in ActiveSupport would be such a good idea. Sure, performance is important, but there are other considerations also. I have a project that includes the Nokigiri gem, which takes about 10 times as long to load on startup than it does without Nokogiri.