From: Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>
Date: 2010-10-17T22:57:12+09:00
Subject: Re: releasing beta version of gem (naming question)

Marvin Gülker wrote in post #954889:
>
> This is called a pre-relase gem and to get one you have to name your gem
> like this: mygem.1.2.0.beta, i.e. a comination of ASCII characters as
> the last version number (not just "beta" is valid). To install a
> prerelease gem, you have to pass the --pre option to gem:
>   $ gem install mygem --pre
> Otherwise RubyGems will download the current stable version.
> Have a look at the coderay gem ( http://rubygems.org/gems/coderay ),
> it's maintainer has published some beta gems.
>
> Vale,
> Marvin

Thanks. Added ".pre" to the version attribute in gemspec (or if using
jeweler, then to the VERSION file), does the trick in creating a
pre-release.

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