How do you create pre-release gems?

Can't seem to find docs on it, like what the gemspec should look like, etc.开发者_Python百科

Just add '.pre' to the version.

'pre' seems to be the convention but any text is fine, you just add any text characters to the version number and it's then considered a pre-release version.

gem.version = "1.0.0.pre"      # convention used by rubygems itself
gem.version = "1.0.0.beta"   
gem.version = "1.0.0.rc1"
gem.version = "1.0.0.bacon"

Reference: http://guides.rubygems.org/patterns/#prerelease-gems

Any Gem whose version number contains a letter is a pre-release Gem.

I don't think there is a special way to create pre release gems. You just change your version string to something like: "2.pre" and publish the gem as usual.

Take a look at this thread: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/252914