Module: GC

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.

Methods

disable enable garbage_collect start

Public Class methods

GC.disable => true or false

Disables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was already disabled.

   GC.disable   #=> false
   GC.disable   #=> true

GC.enable => true or false

Enables garbage collection, returning true if garbage collection was previously disabled.

   GC.disable   #=> false
   GC.enable    #=> true
   GC.enable    #=> false

GC.start => nil
gc.garbage_collect => nil
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect => nil

Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.

Public Instance methods

GC.start => nil
gc.garbage_collect => nil
ObjectSpace.garbage_collect => nil

Initiates garbage collection, unless manually disabled.