How to mark a ruby package as a beta or developer release

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Is there a way to mark or version a ruby package, specifically a rubygem, as a developer or beta release?

In the Perl world, there is a widely respected convention of the underscore-separated minuscule number indicating a developer release. That is, 1.23_01 is a dev release following ordinary release 1.23, and the main Perl packaging software and community distribution site know this. Is there a similar practice for ruby?

toro2k · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-05 14:31:16Z

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Rubygems supports the notion of prerelease gems. To mark a gem version as a prerelease you just have to include at least one letter in the version number (for example 1.0.a, 1.0.beta1, 1.0.dev1).

Rubygems version numbers must match this regular expression: [0-9]+(\.[0-9a-zA-Z]+)*, thus hyphens or underscores are not allowed.

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answered Jun 5, 2013 at 14:09

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@pilcrow Yes, you can find it in rubygems/version.rb, it's the constant VERSION_PATTERN (rubygems 1.8.23).
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Femaref · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-05 13:51:56Z

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Depends on the project, but I've seen Semantic Versioning used quite often.

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