On 8 Mar 2010, at 00:18, Eric Wong wrote: > Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > >> When I tweeted about Rubyists leaving IO objects to be cleaned up or >> closed by GC, *everyone* agreed that it's a bug in the code, and that >> nobody should ever rely on GC to release File/IO resources. >> >> What more can I say? :) > > *everyone* meaning your followers on Twitter? I suspect your followers > on Twitter are more inclined to agree with you :) I agree for debugging reasons. Finding some IO from 3 requests back really raises questions I'd rather not have to raise.