2012/4/23 Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> If the Ruby code does not manually close the database, we need to make
> sure it's closed when garbage collected.
>
> In Ruby, users are not _required_ to close, the garbage collector should
> take care of that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> ---
>  bindings/ruby/database.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/bindings/ruby/database.c b/bindings/ruby/database.c
> index 982fd59..7b2ed47 100644
> --- a/bindings/ruby/database.c
> +++ b/bindings/ruby/database.c
> @@ -20,10 +20,16 @@
>
>  #include "defs.h"
>
> +static void
> +database_free (void *p)
> +{
> +    notmuch_database_close (p);
> +}
> +
>  VALUE
>  notmuch_rb_database_alloc (VALUE klass)
>  {
> -    return Data_Wrap_Struct (klass, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> +    return Data_Wrap_Struct (klass, NULL, database_free, NULL);
>  }
>
>  /*
> --
> 1.7.10
>

I'd rather not do this.
Please read: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.general/320324

        -alip