From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T07:31:48+09:00
Subject: Re: WIN32OLE -- cannot terminate Excel process

On 8/12/08, David Mullet <david.mullet@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I modified that code to this...
>
>    ews = nil
>    ewb = nil
>    excel = nil
>    WIN32OLE.ole_free( ews)
>    WIN32OLE.ole_free( ewb)
>    WIN32OLE.ole_free( excel)
>    GC.start
>
> ...the Excel process terminated properly.
>
> My suggestions:
>
> A) Set object variables to nil before calling ole_free.

I can see how you can free up object memory with
  ews = nil;
  #...
  GC.start

But I'm not sure what calling ole_free after assigning to nil could
possibly do...
How is
  ews = nil;
  WIN32OLE.ole_free( ews)

any different from:
  WIN32OLE.ole_free( nil)
?

-Adam