From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-01-01T06:45:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Denying access to methods on DRb

Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What is the way to specify that only some methods on an object
> exposed via Drb can be accessed? Reading the source, I found the
> INSECURE_METHOD array, so this is what I'm doing now:

Declaring them private works for me, as below:

> module Foo
>   # some methods
> end
> 
> class Bar
>   include Foo
> 
>   # I want Bar's own methods to be available via DRb, but not the
>   # ones from Foo

     Foo.instance_methods.each do |m|
       private m
     end
   end

Or, simpler, you can just make them private in Foo, if that makes sense 
for other users of Foo.