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Has anyone had any experience with making calls to Win32 COM object in a rails controller. I have no problem making the calls using the WIN32 module, however I do seem to have some memory leaks, when the COM object being called at some point makes use of SafeArrays. The same method calls in VB,Visual C++ don''t produce the same memory leaks. I realize this might seem a little odd, but

Is there a way to only run periodically_call_remote when a condition is true? I essentially want the ability to start and stop periodically_call_remote, based on a user initiated action. Thanks, John Cole