Summary of differences between the access controllers public, private, and protected in ruby

Focus on private and protected

Public

The default value is public, which can be accessed globally.

Private

C ++, "private" indicates "private to this class", but Ruby prefers "private to this instance ".
In C ++, As long as class A can access Class A, it can access the private method of the object of Class.
Ruby, but not: You can only access the private method of this object in your object instance.
Because the ruby principle is "private means you cannot specify the method receiver", the receiver can only be self, and self must be omitted!
Therefore, subclasses in Ruby can access the private method of the parent class. However, self. private_method is incorrect.

Protected

It can be accessed in this class or subclass and cannot be accessed in other classes.

Test code (public access, Code omitted)

class A  def test    protected_mth    private_mth    self.protected_mth    #self.private_mth     #wrong    obj = B.new    obj.protected_mth    #obj.private_mth       #wrong  end  protected  def protected_mth    puts "#{self.class}-protected"  end  private  def private_mth    puts "#{self.class}-private"  endendclass B < A  def test    protected_mth    private_mth    self.protected_mth    #self.private_mth     #wrong    obj = B.new    obj.protected_mth    #obj.private_mth       #wrong  endendclass C  def test    a = A.new    #a.protected_mth          #wrong    #a.private_mth            #wrong  endendA.new.testB.new.testC.new.test

Note: There is no package difference between Ruby access control and Java.
Classes in other packages only need to reference the target class, which is the same as the class access control rules in the same package.

Reference: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Classes#Declaring_Visibility