Kernel::VERSION

ruby-talk
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There used to be a constant of this name, which I was using
in programs to figure out which version of Ruby the user had.
It seems to be gone in Ruby version 1.8.1. What should I
use instead?

Regards, Bret

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Bret Jolly wrote:

There used to be a constant of this name, which I was using
in programs to figure out which version of Ruby the user had.
It seems to be gone in Ruby version 1.8.1. What should I
use instead?

Object::VERSION

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$ irb
irb(main):001:0> VERSION
=> “1.8.1”
irb(main):002:0> Kernel::VERSION
NameError: uninitialized constant Kernel::VERSION
from (irb):2

Looks like it’s just not Kernel::VERSION.

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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:21:41 +0900 oinkoink+unet@rexx.com (Bret Jolly) wrote:

There used to be a constant of this name, which I was using
in programs to figure out which version of Ruby the user had.
It seems to be gone in Ruby version 1.8.1. What should I
use instead?

–
Ryan Pavlik rpav@mephle.com

“Oh for the love of evil, not this again.” - 8BT

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oinkoink+unet@rexx.com (Bret Jolly) writes:

There used to be a constant of this name, which I was using
in programs to figure out which version of Ruby the user had.
It seems to be gone in Ruby version 1.8.1. What should I
use instead?

RUBY_VERSION works too.

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–
matt

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Matt Armstrong matt@lickey.com wrote in message news:87hdzahsu2.fsf@naz.lickey.com…

RUBY_VERSION works too.

Thanks. RUBY_VERSION looks good and works as early
as ruby 1.6.4 (the earliest version that builds on my
machine).