Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] GC + NSNotifications

[Patrick G. <pge...@wa...>]

>
> Related question: suppose I create an object that receives
> NSNotifications. In the Ruby universe, I keep no pointers to it. Is it
> protected from Ruby GC?

I'm not sure, I've had crashes when not keeping pointers. Manually  
creating a window in an application controller and not keeping a  
pointer -> crash. Storing it as an instance or global variable -> no  
more crash.

If you're not sure about object lifetime, call GC.start. If your code  
crashes right after it, it's trying to access destroyed data : keep  
pointers around. If it works, you're all good !