From: "Carina C. Zona" <cczona@...>
Date: 2011-11-12T15:24:08+09:00
Subject: Re: referring to version numbers in a gem

This is what namespaces are for.  If a library's constants are
colliding with the environment's, one or the other is managing
namespace poorly.

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_modules.html


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:

>    I'm using the Gem::Version thing for now in part because I've seen
>    cases where for some reason a VERSION constant conflicts with
>    something else in the Ruby environment.  I haven't seen it in quite a
>    while, but I don't want to have to deal with that kind of issue.