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 nece

Answer 1

There's also the option to prepend private to the method definition since Ruby 2.1.

class Example

 def xmethod
 end

 private def ymethod
 end

 private def zmethod 
 end

end

Looking at the definition, you instantly know if a method is private, no matter where in the file it's defined. It's a bit more typing (if you don't autocomplete) and not all your defs will be nicely aligned.