VersionGem Alternatives This gem has a very niche purpose, which is: 1. providing introspection of a Version module based on a Version::VERSION constant string, 2. while not interfering with gemspec parsing where the VERSION string is traditionally used. If this isn't precisely your use case you may be better off looking at Versionaire, a wonderful, performant, well-maintained, gem from the Alchemists. For more discussion about this see issue #2