A better way to fine a module's children?

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Published on 2010-05-04T14:09:45Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 14:28 UTC
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This is what I've got, but it also finds classes and other constants.. is there a better way?

class Module
    def children
        constants.collect { |c| const_get(c) }.compact
    end
end

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