Where to define Rails app's version number [closed]
I will reply my own question, I was not able to find a better answer.
Since Rails application is basically MySite::Application I thought app's version should be accessed by MySite::Application::VERSION so create :
config/initializers/version.rb
module MySite class Application VERSION = "0.0.4" endendor config/version.rb and require this file from config/application.rb
I add my own version to the Configuration class with an initializer:
app_version.rb
class Configuration class << self attr_accessor :app_version end @app_version = 0.72endWithin the app, I can pull the version:
@app_version = Configuration.app_versionNot sure why you want to use the version, but I often use versioning so I can see if a particularly version of code is actually running. In that case, I need every code revision to be reflected as a new version, so I use the Git version on my code and often just display the first few characters of it since that is likely unique enough to identify it.
@git_version = `git show --pretty=%H`[0..39]