solutions to the annoying “warning: already initialized constant” message

Question

Today I\'ve stumbled upon a tricky issue with Ruby constants. In our team someone created a module, which is included into multiple models. In our (spec) test output this result

Answer 1

I encountered this same problem today and found a simple solution.

Since the warning is from trying to reassign a constant with its same value, I just changed

module LifeCycle
  RESET = 'reset'
end

to

module LifeCycle
  RESET ||= 'reset'
end

This took care of the warning and is a lot simpler than checking if each constant is defined. Let me know if you find a better solution.