Ruby: Destructors?

Question

I need to occasionaly create images with rmagick in a cache dir.

To then get rid of them fast, without loosing them for the view, I want to delete the image-files wh

Answer 1

There's really no such thing as a destructor in Ruby.

What you could do is simply clear out any files that are no longer open, or use the TempFile class which does this for you.

Update:

I previously claimed that PHP, Perl and Python do not have destructors, but this does appear to be false as igorw points out. I have not seen them used very often, though. A properly constructed destructor is essential in any allocation-based language, but in a garbage collected one it ends up being optional.