From: "Jan E." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-19T02:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing protected or private methods from class methods

In your case the code from the configure method should be in the 
initialize method. This will solve your problem and is also the right 
way to do it. Setting up an object is what the initialize method is for. 
It shouldn't depend on some other method being called (this will make 
the code rather obscure and fragile).

Apart from that, I don't see any clean solution to the general problem. 
Like I said: There's no special connection between a class and an 
instance of the class. You can either make a method either visible to 
all classes or none at all.

So I guess you'll have to stick with that workaround (which I don't find 
too bad).

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