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

You can't explicitly destroy object. Ruby has automatic memory management. Objects no longer referenced from anywhere are automatically collected by the garbage collector built in the interpreter.

Good article to read on how to do allocation wisely, and a few tools you can use to fine tune.

http://merbist.com/2010/07/29/object-allocation-why-you-should-care/