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Ruby - Ensure Syslog Gets Closed

Is it absolutely critical that I always close Syslog when I'm done using it? Is there a huge negative impact from not doing so?

If it turns out that I definitely need to, what's a good way to do it? I'm opening Syslog in my class constructor and I don't see a way to do class destructors in Ruby, and currently have something resembling this:

class Foo
  def initialize
    @@log = Syslog.open("foo")
  end
end

I don't immediately see the place where the Syslog.close call should be, but what do you recommend?

Solution

  • The open method accepts a block. Do something like this:

    class Foo
  def do_something
    Syslog.open do
      # work with the syslog here
    end
  end
end