From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2012-05-10T05:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Hooking into the VM's shutdown process

"Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Quintus <quintus@quintilianus.eu> wrote:
> > Probably you could write a C function to do the notification, then
> > bridge that C function over to Ruby, and from there call it inside an
> > #at_exit handler?
> 
> Ah, thank you. Any examples of how to use that?

If you don't need the Ruby API, atexit(3).

Ruby 1.9.3+ also has ruby_vm_at_exit() (documented in NEWS-1.9.3, so
it's likely to remain supported).

Otherwise, define a Ruby method and call it via at_exit {} in Ruby:

  at_exit { MyModule.destroy }