From 095b3bfdc8d91d96154d954ec34faef4e6b8841d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Stollsteimer <sto.mar@web.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 22:13:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make IRB::VERSION available for library users

Always require `irb/version' to provide IRB::VERSION at any time,
not only when IRB.version is called previously.
---
 lib/irb.rb | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/irb.rb b/lib/irb.rb
index a7ab9d7bc..85953346a 100644
--- a/lib/irb.rb
+++ b/lib/irb.rb
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 require "irb/input-method"
 require "irb/locale"
 
+require "irb/version"
+
 # IRB stands for "interactive Ruby" and is a tool to interactively execute Ruby
 # expressions read from the standard input.
 #
@@ -354,7 +356,6 @@ def IRB.conf
   def IRB.version
     if v = @CONF[:VERSION] then return v end
 
-    require "irb/version"
     rv = @RELEASE_VERSION.sub(/\.0/, "")
     @CONF[:VERSION] = format("irb %s(%s)", rv, @LAST_UPDATE_DATE)
   end