Dealing with .ruby-version file

Ruby JRuby
1

I have a project which I want to test with jruby. I created a jruby
fork
of the project and started hacking away the gemfile and other stuff but
of
course changing the .ruby-version file always causes a conflict with the
master branch.

I am wondering if anybody has a cool trick to set up the .ruby-version
based on the git branch or something like that.

2

It shouldn’t cause a conflict unless you keep changing the version on
master. If you create a new branch, edit .ruby-version, and then keep
merging from master where .ruby-version has not been modified, then git
should not see any conflicts.

When you do change the Ruby version on master, which I guess is once
every few months, you then have a one-line conflict which you can easy
fix.

Chris