Hi, While reading the discussion on Garbage Collection, I suddenly thought of one question: for the following code conn=WIN32OLE.new("ADODB.Connection") conn.open(...) do I need to manually call conn.Close, or ruby will take care of that for me? Shannon _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail