This is a simple script that gathers the methods known to the current environment, and queries them on a Google Code Search for a number of occurrences using some certain rules. == Usage == Just run the .rb file. If you want to test the methods of a certain gem in addition to the standard library, modify the require's in the header accordingly. == How it works? == All relevant comments are in the method_counter.rb file. Just for the note, the way this script and Rails are written, it cannot analyze Rails gems for their methods. == Results == results.csv contains the sample (post-formatted) result file based on ~800 methods from ruby standard library, open-uri, cgi, rubygems and hpricot libraries. The most used methods are, understandably, #new and #each. 39 methods, including such gems as #default_system_source_cache_dir or #is_complex_yaml? haven't been used a single time in Google Code Search db. == License == This script and accompanying files are public domain.