From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-04-01T07:28:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby iterating over Exchange Mailboxes

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Jeff Miller <loadeddesigns@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>   I just got this recommendation from a friend:
>
>  "Exchange has a limit of 250 open RPC channels, so you need to release
>  objects as you use them or you'll run out of channels. You'll probably
>  have to dig a little to find out whether Ruby releases objects
>  immediately or, like .NET, in its own sweet time and whether it can be
>  forced to release immediately."
>
>  Thus, does anybody know how I can force release of an object?

try WIN32OLE#ole_free:
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/win32ole/rdoc/classes/WIN32OLE.html#M009643

most probably:
some_object.ole_free
some_object = nil

warning: I have not tried this.

Jano