Private Methods

Private methods are only able to be called from the class which they are defined inside.

class SomeClass
  def public_method
    puts "This can be called from anywhere"
  end

  private

  def private_method
    puts "This can only be called from inside the context of the current object"
  end
end

object = SomeClass.new
object.public_method
# "This can be called from anywhere"
object.private_method
`<main>': private method `private_method' called for #<SomeClass:0x000000010dfd8528> (NoMethodError)
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