A method is a way of doing something, and in programming, it is what you tell the computer to do when something happens... I think... I'm thinking he's just using the word as an english term, not anything reffering at all to ruby.
So, if someone would like to do this, go ahead, it would be helpful to many people... I admit I have no clue what he's talking about for the most part, I probably have to refresh my memory on the syntax of ruby...
*goes to ruby help file*