From: Kelly Dwight Felkins <railsinator@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T05:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: it is possible to unload a class?

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Is it possible to reload a class in irb?

On 1/24/06, Edward Faulkner <ef@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:58:12AM +0900, sayoyo@yahoo.com wrote:
> > we can load a library, a class or a gem with the funtionc "require". If
> > I want to unload a library, a class or a gem, how can I do this, (or it
> > is possible?)
>
> In general it's not possible.
>
> I suppose you could try to hunt down and rebind every reference to the
> classes/modules in the library, eventually allowing them to be garabge
> collected.  But I can't think of a practical reason to do that.
>
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