Show a live chart of your process's memory usage.
To use stripmem in an existing application, add it to your Gemfile
gem 'stripmem'
To use stripmem standalone, install it.
gem install stripmem
You can run this as a monitor of a new process and all processes spawned from it.
$ stripmem tar cfv /dev/null ~
If you installed it in your Gemfile, you can monitor your rails server process, too:
$ bundle exec stripmem rails server
To view the chart, open http://localhost:9999/