Understanding private methods in Ruby

Question

class Example
 private
 def example_test
  puts \'Hello\'
 end
end

e = Example.new
e.example_test

This of course will not work, because we specifi

Answer 1

It's weird, but many things about Ruby's visibility modifiers are weird. Even if self is the implicit receiver, actually spelling it out makes it explicit in the eyes of the Ruby runtime. When it says that private methods cannot be called with an explicit receiver, that is what it means, even self counts.