How to make the class constructor private in Ruby?

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Published on 2009-10-14T16:18:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 1:00 UTC
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class A
private
  def initialize
    puts "wtf?"
  end
end

A.new #still works and calls initialize

class A
private
  def self.new
    super.new
  end
end

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