Where to place private methods in Ruby?

Question

Most of the blogs or tutorials or books have private methods at the bottom of any class/module. Is this the best practice?

I find having private methods as and when nece

Answer 1

I'm coming from java background and I hate to have to scroll to see method type. I think it's insane that one cannot specify method visibility per method without ugliness. So I ended up putting a comment #private before each suck method and then declaring private :....