By: Wayne Conrad

Wayne Conrad — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:34:25 +0000

You can make private accessors by putting the attr_… helper inside the private section of the class:

#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8

class Foo

def set_baz
self.baz = 2
end

def show_baz
puts “baz = #{baz}”
end

private

attr_accessor :baz

end

foo = Foo.new
foo.set_baz
foo.show_baz # prints ’2′
p foo.baz # Fails: “private method ‘baz’ called”

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