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

Dennis had the perfect answer, that is, when using ruby >=2.1, just prefix the def with private (or protected,public)

But I believe that it's now also possible to use private as a block as in:

private begin
   def foo
   end
   def bar
   end
end

def zip
end