From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2004-11-22T04:07:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Inner Class Relationship

From: "James Edward Gray II" <james@grayproductions.net>
>
>  My desire was to find 
> a way around using a PUBLIC method in the outer class.  It's really a 
> message that only the inner class should be able to send.

How about,

 outer.send(:private_method_in_outer, foo, bar)

or

 outer.instance_eval { private_method_in_outer(foo, bar) }

?

Technically anybody can call private methods that way, but
they have to go out of their way to do so.


Regards,

Bill