From: Denis Leclair <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-19T01:27:08+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing protected or private methods from class methods

Hi Jan,

You are quite right - my initial post was confusing in that regard. The 
real problem is with the .configure() method but my question still 
stands.

In this particular example, I have a .configure() method which is only 
intended to be run at object creation time in order to set up some of 
the internal state of the object. Ideally, I would prefer to to setup 
the interface so that it's not callable by any external code. It seems 
like the only way to do this is to declare the method private and then 
have my class method bypass the restriction using .send(). Is there no 
cleaner way to do this?

This factory method is just one example. There are many other cases 
where it would make good sense to have a class method that can modify 
the internal state of an object by calling into protected or private 
methods on an object that it has a handle to. I just don't see a nice 
way of doing it with Ruby.

Thanks again,
Denis

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