So I'm working on my differently-opinionated version of LoginEngine, and
I've come across something I don't quite get.

LoginEngine declares two public class methods (authenticate and
authenticate_by_token) on module ClassMethods, which then get mixed into
class User via AuthenticatedUser.  However, the protected methods that they
rely - ahshed and salted_password - on aren't similarly brought into User;
they're kept in AuthenticatedUser, and called explicitly.

Is there any reason they shouldn't be mixed into User like the public
ClassMethods are?  Was it just an implementation choice?  I haven't played
much with access control in Ruby, so maybe there's something I'm missing.

Jay Levitt

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