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

As others have already pointed out the convention is to put private methods at the bottom, under one private class. However, you should probably also know that many programers use a double indented (4 spaces instead of 2) method for this. The reason is that often times you won't see "private" in your text editor and assume they could be public. See below for an illustration:

class FooBar

  def some_public_method
  end

  def another_public_method
  end

private

    def some_private_method
    end

    def another_private method
    end

end

This method should prevent you from having to scroll up and down and will make other programmers more comfortable in your code.