Method visibility in Ruby
- There is really no private methods in Ruby. Because it Ruby provides a way to access private methods.
TODO: add example of send.
- All methods, no matter the access control, can be accessed within the class.
- Public
- Protected
- Private
Public#
- All methods are public by default unless marked as private or protected.
- Public methods enforce no access control -- they can be called in any scope.
Protected#
- Protected methods are only accessible within their defining class and its subclasses.
Private#
- Private methods are only accessible within the class definition.
- They are for internal usage.