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

Unfortunately, private only applies to instance methods. The general way to get private "static" methods in a class is to do something like:

class << self
  private

  def foo()
   ....
  end
end

Admittedly I haven't played with doing this in modules.