From 8982bbcbeeb36f9cf0576621898bba27c51dcba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Kokubun <takashikkbn@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 11:05:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [ruby/erb] Publish constant ERB::VERSION

Even cgi.gem publicly defines CGI::VERSION today. It's just weird that
ERB::VERSION is kept private at this point.

https://github.com/ruby/erb/commit/46801cbd47
---
 lib/erb.gemspec    | 2 +-
 lib/erb/version.rb | 1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/erb.gemspec b/lib/erb.gemspec
index f009a70d2c..0a59abad53 100644
--- a/lib/erb.gemspec
+++ b/lib/erb.gemspec
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ end
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.name          = 'erb'
-  spec.version       = ERB.const_get(:VERSION, false)
+  spec.version       = ERB::VERSION
   spec.authors       = ['Masatoshi SEKI', 'Takashi Kokubun']
   spec.email         = ['seki@ruby-lang.org', 'k0kubun@ruby-lang.org']
 
diff --git a/lib/erb/version.rb b/lib/erb/version.rb
index b5fe39b330..2c395d06ad 100644
--- a/lib/erb/version.rb
+++ b/lib/erb/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 class ERB
   VERSION = '4.0.4'
-  private_constant :VERSION
 end