Improve docs for Benchmark.realtime #25
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Reopening this PR from ruby/ruby here: ruby/ruby#11706
The documentation for
Benchmark.realtime
doesn't make it clear what unit is being used. I've updated the docs to specify that it uses seconds. The module level docs do mention that Benchmark.measure returns seconds, but it is easy to miss when looking at the method docs in isolation.Rails has recently deprecated the
Benchmark.ms
monkeypatch (rails/rails#52746), which means there might be more people using this in Rails app, and clarifying the unit here will make it less confusing to switch to this.In addition, I have also added an example for the method.