# Re: Developmetn Releases on Rubyforge

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-developmetn-releases-on-rubyforge/97981>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-developmetn-releases-on-rubyforge/97981 "2006-07-11T20:06:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-developmetn-releases-on-rubyforge/97981/1 "2006-07-11T20:06:17Z")

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> What solutions to this do others use?  
> T.

Simple - I don’t put out a gems for development releases. You want it?  
You gotta grab it yourself. 🙂

Does rubygems support a “status” option, i.e. “stable”, “alpha”,  
“development”, etc? Then set the default to only install “stable” gems,  
with an option to install the specified status level, e.g. gem install  
foo --status=any would grab the latest and greatest, regardless of dev  
status.

Might be handy.

Regards,

Dan

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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-developmetn-releases-on-rubyforge/97981/2 "2006-07-11T20:28:19Z")

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Berger, Daniel wrote:

> > What solutions to this do others use?  
> > T.
> 
> Simple - I don’t put out a gems for development releases. You want it?  
> You gotta grab it yourself. 🙂

Doh! Yea well that’s a good idea. I’ll do that, Thanks Daniel. BTW I  
added you #to\_struct method to Facets yesterday. Thanks!

> Does rubygems support a “status” option, i.e. “stable”, “alpha”,  
> “development”, etc? Then set the default to only install “stable” gems,  
> with an option to install the specified status level, e.g. gem install  
> foo --status=any would grab the latest and greatest, regardless of dev  
> status.

Yea. Something like that seems like a good idea.

Thanks,  
T.