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

The simple answer is, let the GC (garbage collector) do its job.

When you are ready to get rid of that reference, just do object = nil. And don't make reference to the object.

The garbage collector will eventually collect that and clear the reference.

(from ruby site)
=== Implementation from GC
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  GC.start                     -> nil
  GC.start(full_mark: true, immediate_sweep: true)           -> nil

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Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.

This method is defined with keyword arguments that default to true:

  def GC.start(full_mark: true, immediate_sweep: true); end

Use full_mark: false to perform a minor GC. Use immediate_sweep: false to
defer sweeping (use lazy sweep).

Note: These keyword arguments are implementation and version dependent. They
are not guaranteed to be future-compatible, and may be ignored if the
underlying implementation does not support them.