Question

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?

Answer 1

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