Use different code for Rails 2 and Rails 3
When writing a piece of reusable code, you sometimes need to have separate code for Rails 2 and Rails 3. You can distinguish between Rails versions like this:
if Rails.version < '3' # mind the quotes
# Rails 2 code goes here
else
# Rails 3+ code goes here
end
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