From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-07T01:47:45+09:00
Subject: Re: getting around access control

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ross Bamford wrote:

> irb(main):025:0> class ClzThree
> irb(main):026:1> protected
> irb(main):027:1> def amethod
> irb(main):028:2> "amethod"
> irb(main):029:2> end
> irb(main):030:1> end
> => nil
>
> irb(main):031:0> ClzThree.new.amethod
> NoMethodError: protected method `amethod' called for #<ClzThree:0xb7f48018>
>        from (irb):31
>        from :0
>
> irb(main):032:0> class ClzThree
> irb(main):033:1> public :amethod
> irb(main):034:1> end
> => ClzThree
>
> irb(main):037:0> ClzThree.new.amethod
> => "amethod"
>
> ?

yeah...  technically that works.  what i'm doing is having handlered register
with a controller to process requests based on mime_type.  the handler really
needs to be run in the context of the controller to access all the good stuff
there but which 'good stuff' is not know a priori so i can't really use this
approach.  also, it's probably bad mojo to start making methods public that
should be private on an object that's directly exposed to the web ;-)

cheers.

-a
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