From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2011-08-15T06:17:26+09:00 Subject: Re: class inheritance and class constants I may be late to the party, since it seems like you've already solved the problem, but Ruby has a const_missing method, which works just like method_missing. You could use it to search for constants in various places. http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Module.html#M000489 -- Matma Rex