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

version.rake

def valid? version
  pattern = /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+(\-(dev|beta|rc\d+))?$/
  raise "Tried to set invalid version: #{version}".red unless version =~ pattern
end

def correct_version version
  ver, flag = version.split '-'
  v = ver.split '.'
  (0..2).each do |n|
    v[n] = v[n].to_i
  end
  [v.join('.'), flag].compact.join '-'
end

def read_version
  begin 
    File.read 'VERSION'
  rescue
    raise "VERSION file not found or unreadable.".red
  end
end

def write_version version
  valid? version
  begin
    File.open 'VERSION', 'w' do |file|
      file.write correct_version(version)
    end
  rescue
    raise "VERSION file not found or unwritable.".red
  end
end

def reset current, which
  version, flag = current.split '-'
  v = version.split '.'
  which.each do |part|
    v[part] = 0
  end
  [v.join('.'), flag].compact.join '-'
end

def increment current, which
  version, flag = current.split '-'
  v = version.split '.'
  v[which] = v[which].to_i + 1
  [v.join('.'), flag].compact.join '-'
end

desc "Prints the current application version"
version = read_version
task :version do
  puts <