Private module methods in Ruby

Question

I have a two part question

Best-Practice

• I have an algorithm that performs some operation on a data structure using the public interfa

Answer 1

You can use the "included" method to do fancy things when a module is mixed in. This does about what you want I think:

module Foo
  def self.included(base)
    class << base 
      def public_method
        puts "public method"
      end
      def call_private
        private_method
      end
      private
      def private_method
        puts "private"
      end
    end
  end
end

class Bar
  include Foo
end

Bar.public_method

begin
  Bar.private_method
rescue
  puts "couldn't call private method"
end

Bar.call_private