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Dmytrii Nagirniak
Dmytrii Nagirniak

Reputation: 24108

How to make all the gem classes and modules private?

How it is possible to only expose one module or a class from a Ruby gem and close everything else?

For example, in a my-math library, I only want to expose Math module, but not any other, such as Math::Utils or similar.

I want to enforce one and only one way of using the gem.

At least making it hard to access internal classes will help (even munging the names at runtime will be better than open-access).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 329

Answers (1)

sawa
sawa

Reputation: 168199

Not clear what you are trying to do, but if you want private constants, why not just declare them as so?

module Namespace
  module Secret
  end
  private_constant :Secret
  Secret # => Namespace::Secret
end

Namespace::Secret # => NameError. Private constant Namespace::Secret referenced.

Upvotes: 2

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