Create version.rb

README.md

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ As you can see, this is a very Builder-like DSL. This code will spit out an Atom
 
 After checking out the repo, run `rake test` to run the tests.
 
-To install this gem onto your local machine, run `rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in `lib/rss/rss.rb`, and then run `rake release`, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the `.gem` file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).
+To install this gem onto your local machine, run `rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in `lib/rss/version.rb`, and then run `rake release`, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the `.gem` file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).
 
 ## Contributing
 

lib/rss.rb

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@
 module RSS
 end
 
+require "rss/version"
+
 require 'rss/1.0'
 require 'rss/2.0'
 require 'rss/atom'

lib/rss/rss.rb

@@ -68,10 +68,6 @@ def w3cdtf
 require_relative "xml-stylesheet"
 
 module RSS
-
-  # The current version of RSS
-  VERSION = "0.2.8"
-
   # The URI of the RSS 1.0 specification
   URI = "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
 

lib/rss/version.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+module RSS
+  # The current version of RSS
+  VERSION = "0.2.8"
+end

rss.gemspec

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 begin
-  require_relative "lib/rss"
+  require_relative "lib/rss/version"
 rescue LoadError
   # for Ruby core repository
-  require_relative "rss"
+  require_relative "version"
 end
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
     "lib/rss/taxonomy.rb",
     "lib/rss/trackback.rb",
     "lib/rss/utils.rb",
+    "lib/rss/version.rb",
     "lib/rss/xml-stylesheet.rb",
     "lib/rss/xml.rb",
     "lib/rss/xmlparser.rb",