documentation: "By default, all methods in Ruby classes are public - accessible by anyone. There are, nonetheless, only two exceptions for this rule: the global methods defined under the Object class, and the initialize method for any class. Both of them are implicitly private."
>> class Object >> def something >> puts "something" >> end >> end => nil >> class XYZ >> end => nil >> xyz = XYZ.new => #<XYZ:0x10d067580> >> xyz.something something So then why was I able to access something? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
