From: "Radosław Bułat" <radek.bulat@...>
Date: 2008-11-03T16:31:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Private visibility for class method

> If private has no effect on the visibility of class method
> "self.encrypted_password", I am wondering why the author put its
> definition there. This isn't the only place I found class methods are
> defined under "private" label. So I guess there may be other
> intentions I don't know. Is there anyone giving some hints on this?

I guess that author didn't know that it won't have any affect.
Intuitively it should work as author expected but it doesn't (and
there are some reason). If you want to make private/protected class
methods do this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  class << self
    private

    def encrypted_password(password, salt)
       ....
    end
  end
end

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