From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-19T00:38:21+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing protected or private methods from class methods

Hi,

What does this have to do with the new method? Your problem is obviously 
not with calling the private new method but with calling the (protected) 
instance method "configure".

And that's actually a problem. In Ruby there's no special connection 
between a class and its instances. So a class cannot directly access 
private instance methods (or vice versa).

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