From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-11T12:43:52+09:00
Subject: Re: How to unit test finalizers?

Hi,

In message "How to unit test finalizers?"
    on 03/12/11, Samuel Tesla <samuel@thoughtlocker.net> 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?

How about not relying on finalizers, i.e. separate finalizing process
into a method, then call the method explicitly in the test?  You don't
have to test whether finalizers are called.  That's my responsibility.

							matz.