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by eaurouge 5194 days ago
What's missing in the other comments is that you can't call private methods with an explicit receiver, for example my_object.private_meth or even self.private_meth. On the other hand, public and protected methods can be called on self.

See this blog post for more info: http://www.skorks.com/2010/04/ruby-access-control-are-privat...