VERSION file and dynamic gem date

Author: dzaporozhets

Gemfile.lock

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    gitlab-grit (2.6.0)
+    gitlab-grit (2.6.1)
       charlock_holmes (~> 0.6.9)
       diff-lcs (~> 1.1)
       mime-types (~> 1.15)

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2.6.1

gitlab-grit.gemspec

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name        = 'gitlab-grit'
-  s.version     = '2.6.0'
-  s.date        = '2013-05-06'
+  s.version     = `cat VERSION`
+  s.date        = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
   s.license     = 'MIT'
   s.summary     = "Ruby Git bindings."
   s.description = "Grit is a Ruby library for extracting information from a git repository in an object oriented manner. GitLab fork"

lib/grit.rb

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 require 'grit/grep'
 
 module Grit
-  VERSION = '2.6.0'
+  VERSION = File.read("VERSION").strip
 
   class << self
     # Set +debug+ to true to log all git calls and responses