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

RESET is not a constant if it keeps changing in your code. If you rename it to lower case 'reset', the problem disappears. Ruby thinks Upper case variables are constants and thus displays an error to warn you that a constant has changed.