From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T00:07:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to create a helper method.

Patrick Li wrote:

> But I can still get access to helperMethod by mixing in the module.

Private methods are not a form of code security. Even if you made this method 
completely private, you can still get to it with .send(:helperMethod).

No language makes any private method absolutely private. You should think of 
privacy as nothing more than a warning - "please reconsider calling this 
method". Another common way to do that is move the method out of the default 
namespace by calling it _helperMethod.

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   Phlip