From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2006-10-29T05:23:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to understand why object is not collected?

From: Eero Saynatkari [mailto:ruby-ml@kittensoft.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:20 PM
>On 2006.10.29 03:26, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Here's a problem.
>>
>> I have some object of MyClass with complex "freeing" logic, and I want to
>> test this logic.
>> <snip />
>
>Hard to say what is going wrong but the solution is simple. Whenever
>you have a resource that must be released, do it explicitly. The way
>this is usually implemented is either:
>
>  f = File.open 'foo'
>  puts f.read
>  f.close
>
>Or, more conveniently
>
>  File.open('foo') {|f| puts f.read}
>
>The block-form uses ensure to make sure the file handle gets closed.

I know this (I was C++ guy foe many years, so RAII is my breath), but can't
use. 
My objects are HTML DOM elements and I want to be sure they are GC'd when
detached from DOM and have no other references.

V.