Eric Dooley edooley
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December 15, 2015 12:29
My approach to Rails app versioning. Keep up with your VCS tags and forget about the rest! (git shown here)
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| # Only attempt update on local machine | |
| if Rails.env.development? | |
| # Update version file from latest git tag | |
| File.open('config/version', 'w') do |file| | |
| file.write `git describe --tags --always` # or equivalent | |
| end | |
| end | |
| config.version = File.read('config/version') |