How to I make private class constants in Ruby

Question

In Ruby how does one create a private class constant? (i.e one that is visible inside the class but not outside)

class Person
  SECRET=\'xxx\' # How to make clas         


        

Answer 1

You can also change your constant into a class method:

def self.secret
  'xxx'
end

private_class_method :secret

This makes it accessible within all instances of the class, but not outside.