From: Ryan Davis Date: 2009-09-01T05:05:48+09:00 Subject: Re: What is the ruby conventions to name private method? On Aug 31, 2009, at 01:55 , Fabian Streitel wrote: >> 5) You don't need them. No, really. > > You sometimes do, if you want to be DRY. No. I _never_ do. I can't remember a single time in my 9 years of ruby that I've needed or even wanted private method visibility. Method visibility has nothing to do with code duplication.