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Great work! Now we'll get into the details of public and private methods.
Methods are public by default in Ruby, so if you don't specify public
or private
, your methods will be public. In this case, however, we want to make it clear to people reading our code which methods are public. We do this by putting public
before our method definitions, like so:
class ClassName
# Some class stuff
public
def public_method
# public_method stuff
end
end
Note that everything after the public
keyword through the end
of the class definition will now be public unless we say otherwise. (We'll say otherwise in the next exercise.)