diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view.rb
index e272426d49..5c729345dc 100644
--- a/actionview/lib/action_view.rb
+++ b/actionview/lib/action_view.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 require 'active_support'
 require 'active_support/rails'
+require 'action_view/version'
 
 module ActionView
   extend ActiveSupport::Autoload