Dual-purpose modules refinements or global patches

It’s a good practice to scope patches using Refinements, but sometimes it’s nice to load it globally (for example in development, or testing).

Say for example you want to start a console, require your library, and then have the patched methods available in the global scope. You couldn’t do this with refinements because using needs to be called in a class/module definition. But it’s possible to write the code in such a way that it’s dual purpose:

module Patch
  def patched?; true; end
  refine String do
    include Patch
  end
end

# globally
String.include Patch
"".patched? # => true

# refinement
class LoadPatch
  using Patch
  "".patched? # => true
end