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Asked: 2026-06-14T16:44:32+00:00

In my config/initializers/ refinery folder, there are some config files structured as initializers ├──

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In my config/initializers/refinery folder, there are some config files structured as

initializers
 ├── backtrace_silencers.rb
 ├── inflections.rb
 ├── mime_types.rb 
 ├── refinery
 │   ├── authentication.rb
 │   ├── core.rb
 │   ├── i18n.rb
 │   ├── images.rb
 │   ├── page_images.rb
 │   ├── pages.rb
 │   └── resources.rb
 ├── secret_token.rb
 ├── session_store.rb
 └── wrap_parameters.rb

With refinery/ with rails console --sandbox, I get

  Refinery.included_modules
  #=> []

Why? When I press Tab after Refinery::P, it shows the following modules. 

Refinery::Page                 Refinery::PagePart             Refinery::PaginationHelper     
Refinery::PageImages           Refinery::Pages                Refinery::Plugin               
Refinery::PageImagesGenerator  Refinery::PagesGenerator       Refinery::Plugins

If it has ::, it must be somewhere and has to include it. Then why is include_modules working? Please correct me if I am wrong and show me the correct approach to display the modules or classes which are inside the modules. I referred http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Module.html.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Those modules aren’t “included” in Refinery, which is why they are not listed in included_modules.

    “Including” has a specific meaning in Ruby — basically, it’s when a class or module “mixes in” another module — whereas something like Refinery::Page is namespacing. Check out the Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide, which explains it well.

    Try Refinery.constants to get what you are after.

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