From: Charlie Bowman <charlie@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T22:18:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How to access a classes private method

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Yes, I'm assuming the reason this method is marked as protected in the
rails framework is so that it can't be called arbitrarily from the web.
I don't think I'll be causing any trouble by calling it from a plugin.

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:15 +0900, Tim Becker wrote:

> ...
> >         def bars_method(a=2)
> >             a
> >         end
> ...
> > Here's what the relevant parts of my script look like
> >
> > def calling_protected_method
> >     result = Foo::Bar.bars_method
> > end
> 
> You do realize that the whole point of making methods protected is NOT
> to be able to call them, right?
>    -tim
> 


Charlie Bowman
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