@Primer42 i'm a bit confused here, the page you linked to has an example of programmatically retrieving the version from the gemspec of loaded gems. @byxorna and myself are just suggesting to keep the library version only in the gemspec to avoid these different files from conflicting. the VERSION file is currently not used in that project, if you really wanted to keep the VERSION files around for some reason then you would just want to have the gemspec read it `gem.version = File.read 'VERSION'`.