From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-02-20T09:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Deconstructor to close file

On 2/19/07, Raymond O'connor <nappin713@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write a logger class.  I open the file in the initialize
> method.  Is there a destructor that I can override to close the file, or
> can I just assume the file is closed automatically?
>
> Am I going about this all wrong, and should instead just open and close
> the file each time I write to it?

There is no meaningful concept of a destructor in Ruby. There are
finalizers, but they're not guaranteed to be called.

Rather than trying to write your own logger class, why don't you look at Log4R?

-austin
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