How to destroy Ruby object?

Question

Suppose there is simple object like:

object = Object.new

As I know this creates Object in memory (RAM).

Is there a way to delete th

Answer 1

Other than hacking the underlying C code, no. Garbage collection is managed by the runtime so you don't have to worry about it. Here is a decent reference on the algorithm in Ruby 2.0.

Once you have no more references to the object in memory, the garbage collector will go to work. You should be fine.