gistfile1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'benchmark'
require 'almodovar'          # http://github.com/bebanjo/almodovar

auth = Almodovar::DigestAuth.new("Sequence", "api_user", "secret")
sequence = Almodovar::Resource("http://sequence.local/api", auth)

sequence.work_areas.first.name
# "Bebanjo TV"

sequence.work_areas.first.jobs.first.name
# "Ironman 2"

sequence.work_areas.first.jobs.first.tasks.first.name
# "Encoding"

Benchmark.bm(10) do |bm|
  bm.report("No expands") do
    sequence.work_areas.first.jobs.first.tasks.first.status
  end
  bm.report("1 expand") do
    sequence.work_areas(:expand => "jobs").first.jobs.first.tasks.first.status
  end
  bm.report("2 expands") do
    sequence.work_areas(:expand => ["jobs", "tasks"]).first.jobs.first.tasks.first.status
  end
end

#                 user     system      total        real
# No expands  0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  3.167401)
# 1 expand    0.010000   0.010000   0.020000 (  1.937555)
# 2 expands   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  1.066308)