Why can private helper methods still be accessed in views?

Question

Just another \"why is it that way\" question: I noticed that private helper methods still can be accessed within views. Why\'s that? And is there a way to prevent this (e.g. whe

Answer 1

Helpers are modules that get mixed in to the views. This means that public, protected and private methods in the helper become public, protected and private methods on the views.

I don't think that you can actually hide the helper methods from the view. You'd need to do something like have a helper class which you instantiate in the helper and then delegate calls to that - sounds like it could get messy fast though. :)