Ruby/Class/Public

# Default is public, so you don"t really need to use that keyword. 
class Animal
  def initialize(color)
    @color = color
  end
  public
  def get_color
    return @color
  end
end
animal = Animal.new("brown")
puts "The new animal is " + animal.get_color

class MyClass
  def public_method1
  end
  def public_method2
  end
  protected
  def protected_method1
  end
  private
  def private_method1
  end
  def private_method2
  end
end