On Nov 11, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Carina C. Zona wrote: > How about DRYing it up a by fetching the value from the version info > supplied by your gem's specification? > > http://rubygems.rubyforge.org/rubygems-update/Gem/Specification.html When developing, the code I'm running may not be installed as a gem so there's nowhere to fetch the version from.