What does this mean in the Rails installation command?

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In the Rails guides, it shows thee following for installing Rails:

gem install rails --pre

What is “–pre”?

Thanks.

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abbreviation for “pre-release”. is a version to be installed

2010/7/19 Abder-Rahman A. [email protected]

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Luciano S. wrote:

abbreviation for “pre-release”. is a version to be installed

2010/7/19 Abder-Rahman A. [email protected]

Thanks. Can I specify a specific version.

As for --pre, is it a specific version? Like for example when I used it
it installed Rails3 and I think it was saying also beta4 or something?

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On 19 July 2010 15:50, Abder-Rahman A. [email protected] wrote:

Luciano S. wrote:

abbreviation for “pre-release”. is a version to be installed

2010/7/19 Abder-Rahman A. [email protected]

Thanks. Can I specify a specific version.

For example
gem install rails --version 2.3.5
(that is two ‘-’ chars).

As for --pre, is it a specific version? Like for example when I used it
it installed Rails3 and I think it was saying also beta4 or something?

Don’t know that one.

Colin