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

A nice way is like this

module MyModule
  class << self
    def public_method
      # you may call the private method here
      tmp = private_method
      :public
    end

    private def private_method
      :private
    end
  end
end

# calling from outside the module
puts MyModule::public_method