FancyVersion

An attempt to add style to your application's version.

Idea

Alongside with the standard major.minor.revision format, generate a codename that will reflect the version. Like Ubuntu releases, each having a corresponding codename (Natty Narwhal, heh?).

For example, let's take the standard version string apart:

• major version — this changes rarely and a noun represents it well. After all, another major release of a software project is a completely different being.
• minor version — this is a variation of a major release and could serve as indication of its maturity, so let's go with an adjective describing age, i.e. "newborn", "young", "adolescent", "adult", "elderly" etc.
• revision number — this is a variation of a variation and could represent anything depending on the development/deployment process. For the example here, let's go with another adjective, like quality, i.e. "silly", "grumpy", "horrible".

So, according to this scheme, version number 1.2.3 may be translated to something like 'Ape'.'Young'.'Horrible', or according to English grammar: Horrible Young Ape. Cool, huh?

Another good idea is to use words starting with 'A' to represent number 1, 'B' - number 2 and so on. That's completely unnecessary, but adds some more coolness in my humble opinion.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fancy_version'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fancy_version

Usage

This usually goes into your lib/my_app_name/version.rb:

require "fancy_version"

module MyAppName
  VERSION = "1.2.3"
  VERSION_CODENAME = FancyVersion.codename( VERSION ) # => "Horrible Young Ape"
end

TODO:

• write comprehensive docs
• add complete dictionary (or dictionaries)
• provide methods/options to deal with versions starting with 0 (vs 1)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request