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

Adding some enhancements to User Gates solution. Calling a private method to class method or an instance method is pretty much possible. Here is the Code Snippets. But not recommended.

Class Method

class Example
  def public_m
    Example.new.send(:private_m)
  end

  private
  def private_m
    puts 'Hello'
  end
end

e = Example.new.public_m

Instance Method

class Example
  def self.public_m
    Example.new.send(:private_m)
  end

  private
  def private_m
    puts 'Hello'
  end
end

e = Example.public_m