Comprehensive Ruby Programming

Private method code example

To see what a private method looks like, let's take a look at a real-world Ruby on Rails project that I built:

class InventoriesController < ApplicationController # Public methods not shown for brevity  private    def set_inventory      @inventory = Inventory.find(params[:id])    end    def inventory_params      params.require(:inventory).permit(:title, :qty, :ticket_id)    endend 

As you can see, in Ruby, we designate private methods using the private word above the list of methods. Usually, private methods are placed at the end of the file after all the public methods. Both private methods shown here provide functionality specific to the InventoriesController class, and to no other.

Going back to our code example, that is the ApiConnector ...