[Rails] What happened to Rails::Version::STRING in Rails 1.0.0?

[Rafał Komorowski]

On 02/01/2006, at 03:55, Jamis Buck wrote:

> Yup, there's a reason. The reason is that having Rails::Version  
> caused conflicts with models named Version (because of the way the  
> auto-loading code works).

Thanks for the info.

> This issue will be revisited in later Rails releases, though, so  
> please don't think this was an attempt to just sweep it under the rug.

I see :-)
I hope this will be unchangeable behaviour, once set in first final  
release (that is 1.0). I'm pretty sure you understand (better than  
me) that version-checking is a sensitive matter, since it's the way  
to make sure my application will behave properly or can be run in the  
particular environment at all. For now I can just forget about  
anything older that v1.0 (but not everyone can, right?) and use the  
new syntax Rails::VERSION. If this breaks in next releases, then the  
whole idea of version checking is broken.

Anyway, thanks for the info, thanks for the Rails :-) and happy new  
year.


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