Personally I'd make a YAML file and add an initialiser to put it in a constant. 
Or even just a const in environment.rb
application_helper won't be available to any of your models, so you'd hose 
yourself if you decided to use it in the future outside of a view context.

-C

On 25/03/2010, at 12:00 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This might be a trivial questions for all of you here. My question is,
> where would be the best location to put version number in Rails apps?
> 
> The version number that I will be using will be retrieved from git
> tag. I also need to display this in the views template. I was thinking
> to write it in application_helper, but I was unsure if this would be
> the best practice. Can you please share your experience?
> 
> Thank you in advance for all of your suggestions.
> 
> 
> Cheers.
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