结构:

>> s = Struct.new(:a, :b).new(1, 2)
=> #<struct a=1, b=2>
>> s.a
=> 1
>> s.b
=> 2
>> s.c
NoMethodError: undefined method `c` for #<struct a=1, b=2>

OpenStruct:

>> require 'ostruct'
=> true
>> os = OpenStruct.new(a: 1, b: 2)
=> #<OpenStruct a=1, b=2>
>> os.a
=> 1
>> os.b
=> 2
>> os.c
=> nil

看一下与新方法相关的API。这里有很多不同之处。

就我个人而言，我非常喜欢OpenStruct，因为我不需要预先定义对象的结构，只需要添加我想要的东西。我猜这将是它的主要(缺点)优势?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Struct.html http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/ostruct/rdoc/classes/OpenStruct.html

使用OpenStruct，您可以任意创建属性。另一方面，Struct必须在创建时定义其属性。选择一种还是另一种应该主要基于您以后是否需要能够添加属性。

The way to think about them is as the middle ground of the spectrum between Hashes on one side and classes on the other. They imply a more concrete relationship amongst the data than does a Hash, but they don't have the instance methods as would a class. A bunch of options for a function, for example, make sense in a hash; they're only loosely related. A name, email, and phone number needed by a function could be packaged together in a Struct or OpenStruct. If that name, email, and phone number needed methods to provide the name in both "First Last" and "Last, First" formats, then you should create a class to handle it.

结构:

>> s = Struct.new(:a, :b).new(1, 2)
=> #<struct a=1, b=2>
>> s.a
=> 1
>> s.b
=> 2
>> s.c
NoMethodError: undefined method `c` for #<struct a=1, b=2>

OpenStruct:

>> require 'ostruct'
=> true
>> os = OpenStruct.new(a: 1, b: 2)
=> #<OpenStruct a=1, b=2>
>> os.a
=> 1
>> os.b
=> 2
>> os.c
=> nil

与Structs相比，OpenStructs使用的内存明显更多，运行速度更慢。

require 'ostruct' 

collection = (1..100000).collect do |index|
   OpenStruct.new(:name => "User", :age => 21)
end

在我的系统上，以下代码在14秒内执行，消耗了1.5 GB内存。你的里程可能有所不同:

User = Struct.new(:name, :age)

collection = (1..100000).collect do |index|
   User.new("User",21)
end

这几乎是在瞬间完成的，消耗了26.6 MB的内存。

其他指标:

require 'benchmark'
require 'ostruct'

REP = 100000

User = Struct.new(:name, :age)

USER = "User".freeze
AGE = 21
HASH = {:name => USER, :age => AGE}.freeze

Benchmark.bm 20 do |x|
  x.report 'OpenStruct slow' do
    REP.times do |index|
       OpenStruct.new(:name => "User", :age => 21)
    end
  end

  x.report 'OpenStruct fast' do
    REP.times do |index|
       OpenStruct.new(HASH)
    end
  end

  x.report 'Struct slow' do
    REP.times do |index|
       User.new("User", 21)
    end
  end

  x.report 'Struct fast' do
    REP.times do |index|
       User.new(USER, AGE)
    end
  end
end

对于那些没有耐心的人来说，他们想要了解基准测试结果，而不需要自己运行它们，下面是上面代码的输出(在MB Pro 2.4GHz i7上)

                          user     system      total        real
OpenStruct slow       4.430000   0.250000   4.680000 (  4.683851)
OpenStruct fast       4.380000   0.270000   4.650000 (  4.649809)
Struct slow           0.090000   0.000000   0.090000 (  0.094136)
Struct fast           0.080000   0.000000   0.080000 (  0.078940)