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 /lib, environment.rb, etc.
Just wondering what people thought as to best practices?
My preference is to create a rake task that generates
# config/initializers/version.rb
VERSION = ["1", "0", "f3d9da7"]
FWIW, my rake task:
task :create_version do
desc "create VERSION. Use MAJOR_VERSION, MINOR_VERSION, BUILD_VERSION to override defaults"
version_file = "#{Rails.root}/config/initializers/version.rb"
major = ENV["MAJOR_VERSION"] || 1
minor = ENV["MINOR_VERSION"] || 0
build = ENV["BUILD_VERSION"] || `git describe --always --tags`
version_string = "VERSION = #{[major.to_s, minor.to_s, build.strip]}\n"
File.open(version_file, "w") {|f| f.print(version_string)}
$stderr.print(version_string)
end