Google

module GC

Index:

disable enable start garbage_collect


The GC module provides an interface to Ruby's mark and sweep garbage collection mechanism. Some of the underlying methods are also available via the ObjectSpace module, described beginning on page 434.

class methods
disable GC.disable -> true or false
Disables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was already disabled.

GC.disable -> false
GC.disable -> true

enable GC.enable -> true or false
Enables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was disabled.

GC.disable -> false
GC.enable -> true
GC.enable -> false

start GC.start -> nil
Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.

GC.start -> nil

instance methods
garbage_collect garbage_collect -> nil
Equivalent to GC::start.

include GC
garbage_collect -> nil


Extracted from the book "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"
Copyright © 2000 Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Released under the terms of the Open Publication License V1.0.
This reference is available for download.