Ruby's private keyword might do a lot less than you think.

"private" does not apply to class methods defined on self

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This does not make anything private:

class Foo

  private

  def self.foo
    'foo'
  end
  
end

You need to use private_class_method instead:

class Foo

  def self.foo
    'foo'
  end
  
  private_class_method :foo
  
end

"private" does not apply to define_method

This does not make anything private:

class Foo

  private

  define_method :foo do
    'foo'
  end
  
end

You need to use private with an argument instead:

class Foo

  define_method :foo do
    'foo'
  end
  
  private :foo
  
end