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Invalid call to protected/private method

Reports invalid calls to protected/private methods.

You can call a protected method using an implicit or explicit receiver of the correct type.

You can call a private method only with an implicit receiver (except for self setter methods, for example, self.foo=).

You can call both protected and private methods only from the context of a method handler.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

InvalidCallToProtectedPrivateMethod
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Inspection ID: InvalidCallToProtectedPrivateMethod

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection InvalidCallToProtectedPrivateMethod

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

Qodana for Ruby 2025.2, RubyMine 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025