diff --git a/Manifest.txt b/Manifest.txt
index b7e600f1a9..69ea0b6d18 100644
--- a/Manifest.txt
+++ b/Manifest.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ lib/arel/sql_literal.rb
 lib/arel/table.rb
 lib/arel/tree_manager.rb
 lib/arel/update_manager.rb
-lib/arel/version.rb
 lib/arel/visitors.rb
 lib/arel/visitors/dot.rb
 lib/arel/visitors/join_sql.rb
diff --git a/lib/arel.rb b/lib/arel.rb
index afef2019d4..9d29dfe0a9 100644
--- a/lib/arel.rb
+++ b/lib/arel.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require 'arel/crud'
 
-require 'arel/version'
 require 'arel/expressions'
 require 'arel/table'
 require 'arel/attributes'
@@ -27,3 +26,6 @@ require 'arel/sql/engine'
 require 'arel/sql_literal'
 ####
 
+module Arel
+  VERSION = '1.0.1.beta.1'
+end
diff --git a/lib/arel/version.rb b/lib/arel/version.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 9795347874..0000000000
--- a/lib/arel/version.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-module Arel
-  VERSION = '1.0.1.beta.1'
-end