From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-08-31T16:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the ruby conventions to name private method?


On Aug 30, 2009, at 23:48 , pierr wrote:

> What would you name the private method _insert in below situation?
>
> Class Binary_search_tree
>
>    def insert node
>       _insert @root, node
>    end
>
>    private
>    def _insert tree, node
>         #....
>    end
>
>
> end

My conventions applied to your code:

> class BinarySearchTree
>   def insert node
>     # ...
>   end
> end

1) Don't use underscores in class names.
2) Don't have extra empty lines for no reason.
3) Use 2 spaces per indent.
4) Don't have private methods if you don't need them.
5) You don't need them. No, really.