Can someone explain why gem thinks I don’t have builder >= 2.1.2 even though I clearly have 3.0.0?
jason@ve:~$ gem install rails --pre
ERROR: Error installing rails:
activemodel requires builder (~> 2.1.2, runtime)
jason@ve:~$ gem list*** LOCAL GEMS ***abstract (1.0.0)
activesupport (3.0.3, 3.0.0.rc2)
builder (3.0.0)
erubis (2.6.6)
i18n (0.5.0)
mail (2.2.13)
memcache-client (1.8.5)
mime-types (1.16)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.2.1)
rack-mount (0.6.13)
rack-test (0.5.6)
text-format (1.0.0)
text-hyphen (1.0.0)
treetop (1.4.9)
tzinfo (0.3.23)
jason@ve:~$
The ~> 2.1.2 designation means “greater than or equal to version 2.1.2, but not including the next major version. With a three-component version like 2.1.2, this means builder 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, etc. are all valid but 2.2.0 or 3.0.0 would be invalid.
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