Where to place private methods in Ruby?

Question

Most of the blogs or tutorials or books have private methods at the bottom of any class/module. Is this the best practice?

I find having private methods as and when necessary more convenient. For example:

public def my_method   # do something   minion_method end  private def minion_method   # do something end  public def next_method end 

This way I find the code more readable instead of scrolling up and down continuously which is very irritating.

Is there something terribly wrong in this approach? Is having private methods at the bottom not just a best practice and something else?

Answer 1

The best practice in my point of view is to go sequentially and declare your methods without keeping private in point of view.

At the end, you can make make any method private by just adding: private :xmethod

Example:

class Example  def xmethod  end   def ymethod  end   def zmethod   end   private :xmethod, :zmethod  end 

Does this justify your question?