From: Samuel Tesla <samuel@...>
Date: 2003-12-11T04:22:01+09:00
Subject: How to unit test finalizers?

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Nothing.  There's no way to "ensure" instance to be GC'ed except for
> program termination.  That's a weak (or charm) point of Ruby's GC.

That's fine.  I'm guessing that the GC will eventually, most likely,
collect those references.  The question then becomes, how can I
reliably unit test my finalizer code if I can't reliably get it to
execute?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Samuel