Where do you store your Rails Application's version number?

Question

We use the wonderful semantic versioning paradigm when versioning our rails app. One question I had was where is it best to store this number? I\'ve seen it stored in /l

Answer 1

I don't really think there's any convention for this. I guess it's all about what seems natural to you.

Some places the version number can be placed are in:

• config/environment.rb
• config/application.rb
• config/initializers/version.rb

by adding:

VERSION = '1.0.0'

Regardless of which option you choose (from above) - the VERSION constant will be set at the initialization of the app.

For my blog I just update the footer of my layout - as the version number isn't used anywhere else.

The lib-folder does sound a bit strange though, as this folder is meant to store re-usable modules.