From: Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T22:21:11+09:00
Subject: Ruby1.9, instance_eval and private methods

Can somebody please explain this:

class A
end

blk = proc do
    def test
        puts 'test'
    end
end

a1 = A.new

a1.instance_eval &blk
a1.test #=> prints "test"

def indirect(a, &blk)
    a.instance_eval &blk
end

a2 = A.new

indirect(a2, &blk)

a2.test #=> private method `test' called for #<A:0xad519c> (NoMethodError)

In words: when block for instance_eval is passed through several levels of
methods, it evaluates into private methods.

Ruby1.9 version 2008-03-29

in Ruby1.8 both a1.test and a2.test work as expected