Option for unstable Ruby gem version

[AlexWayfer]

📋 Description

Hello!

I want an option for gem version badge about unstable versions.

Example: https://rubygems.org/gems/flame

The current badge has only 4.18.1 value.

I want to display 5.0.0.rc5 value for informing about preparing the new release.

Thanks.

[calebcartwright]

Do you know if unstable/rc versions are provided via an API response?

We're currently using https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/#gem-methods, and the API response for the aforementioned gem lists the version as 4.18.1:

{
  "name": "flame",
  "downloads": 61236,
  "version": "4.18.1",
  "version_downloads": 2563,
  "platform": "ruby",
  "authors": "Alexander Popov",
  "info": "Use controller's classes with instance methods as routing actions, mounting its in application 
  class.",
  "licenses": [
    "MIT"
  ],
  "metadata": {},
  "sha": "12533f702a8059a51d6d2ce2bea1858ec8ac2993e8549feedc300af64e310e88",
  "project_uri": "https://rubygems.org/gems/flame",
  "gem_uri": "https://rubygems.org/gems/flame-4.18.1.gem",
  "homepage_uri": "https://github.com/AlexWayfer/flame",
  "wiki_uri": null,
  "documentation_uri": "http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/flame/4.18.1",
  "mailing_list_uri": null,
  "source_code_uri": null,
  "bug_tracker_uri": null,
  "changelog_uri": null,
  "dependencies": {...}
}

[calebcartwright]

Perhaps this could be used:
https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/#gem-version-methods

[AlexWayfer]

Do you know if unstable/rc versions are provided via an API response?

I didn't, but now I know. 🙂

Perhaps this could be used: https://guides.rubygems.org/rubygems-org-api/#gem-version-methods

Yep, looks appropriate.

calebcartwright added the good first issue label

This is wrong if it about issue author, not like "good for the first PR". 😃

https://github.com/badges/shields/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3AAlexWayfer

[calebcartwright]

This is wrong if it about issue author, not like "good for the first PR".

The meaning of our labels is documented:
https://github.com/badges/shields/labels
https://github.com/badges/shields#contributing

good first issue is a label we use to flag an issue that we as maintainers believe anyone, even new users, could potentially tackle. It does not have anything to do with how many issues an author has opened

[AlexWayfer]

good first issue is a label we use to flag an issue that we as maintainers believe anyone, even new users, could potentially tackle. It does not have anything to do with how many issues an author has opened

OK, something like PR welcome or Help wanted, I got it, thanks.

[calebcartwright]

OK, something like PR welcome or Help wanted, I got it, thanks.

Exactly! And it also means that it's something new users to the Shields codebase could probably work on as well.

Here is our tutorial for anyone interested in working on this.

It's fairly common for our version badges to support both scenarios: the latest stable version, and the latest version, prereleases/unstable or stable. The latter is what needs to be added here, and there's other version badges that can serve as a reference.

[profgrammer]

Hi, I am trying to work on adding this service but I cannot validate the version 5.0.0.rc6 using the existing regex patterns in test-validators. Can anyone please point me to some resources for this? Thanks!

[PyvesB]

This has been deployed to production. 🍾

For example:
https://img.shields.io/gem/v/flame?include_prereleases

[AlexWayfer]

Wow, thank you all, glad to see it!