From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T04:55:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with ensuring consistency .. Finalization??

Charles Hixson wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
...
>> Perhaps an END {} block?
>>
>> -austin
>>  
>>
> That looks like a good approach (well, the best suggested).  I'd rather 
> have it tied into the class, so that the class could be moved from 
> application to application, but if I can't, I can't.  Having it a part 
> of the containing file is certainly a "next best" viable approach.
> 
> (I didn't even remember that END blocks existed, though I know I've read 
> that page before!)

IIRC, Kernel#at_exit has the same functionality, but you can call it 
from a method in your class.

class C
   def foo
     at_exit do
       puts "Done!"
     end
   end
end