fun_with_version_strings

Declare any Ruby object to have a version:

class MyGem; end

FunWith::VersionStrings.versionize( MyGem, “0.0.3” )

Then the following is true:

MyGem.version # => "0.0.3"
MyGem.version.major  # => 0
MyGem.version.minor  # => 0
MyGem.version.patch  # => 3

You can also compare versions. Observe:

version_a = "9.1.4"
version_b = "10.1.0"
version_c = "9.2.0"

version_c > version_a   # => true
version_c == version_a  # => false
version_b > version_a   # => true
version_b < version_a   # => false

But comparisons are a bit tricky. It will try to compare standard strings as version strings, if the standard string is of the proper format. Otherwise it will compare the two as regular strings.

If the versionized object responds to “.root” and that root is a FunWith::Files::FilePath, you don’t need to give a version. versionize() will try to read the version from the VERSION file in the root directory.

It’s a common pattern with my gems.

Other useful stuff:

"10.4.9".fwvs_version_string.patch  #  => 9

Contributing to fun_with_version_strings

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