diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 051607c0f1..6c2f8a35fe 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 path File.expand_path('..', __FILE__)
 source :gemcutter
 
-gem "rails", "3.0.pre"
+gem "rails", "3.0.0.beta"
 
 gem "rake",  ">= 0.8.7"
 gem "mocha", ">= 0.9.8"
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index a102b38cb7..193e719079 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
 end
 
 task :install => :gem do
-  system %(cd rack && rake gem VERSION=1.0.2.pre && gem install rack-1.0.2.pre.gem --no-ri --no-rdoc --ignore-dependencies)
   (PROJECTS - ["railties"]).each do |project|
     puts "INSTALLING #{project}"
     system("gem install #{project}/pkg/#{project}-#{ActionPack::VERSION::STRING}.gem --no-ri --no-rdoc")
diff --git a/actionmailer/actionmailer.gemspec b/actionmailer/actionmailer.gemspec
index abbb542293..1e4a19f736 100644
--- a/actionmailer/actionmailer.gemspec
+++ b/actionmailer/actionmailer.gemspec
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = 'actionmailer'
   s.summary = "Service layer for easy email delivery and testing."
   s.description = %q{Makes it trivial to test and deliver emails sent from a single service layer.}
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
 
   s.author = "David Heinemeier Hansson"
   s.email = "david@loudthinking.com"
   s.rubyforge_project = "actionmailer"
   s.homepage = "http://www.rubyonrails.org"
 
-  s.add_dependency('actionpack', '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('actionpack', '= 3.0.0.beta')
   s.add_dependency('mail', '~> 2.1.2')
   s.add_dependency('text-format', '~> 1.0.0')
 
diff --git a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/version.rb b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/version.rb
index 0f2b58552b..b11c6ef055 100644
--- a/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/version.rb
+++ b/actionmailer/lib/action_mailer/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActionMailer
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/actionpack/actionpack.gemspec b/actionpack/actionpack.gemspec
index dc91fba64d..ee1c35f0ae 100644
--- a/actionpack/actionpack.gemspec
+++ b/actionpack/actionpack.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'actionpack'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC."
   s.description = %q{Eases web-request routing, handling, and response as a half-way front, half-way page controller. Implemented with specific emphasis on enabling easy unit/integration testing that doesn't require a browser.} #'
 
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.has_rdoc = true
   s.requirements << 'none'
 
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.0.beta')
   s.add_dependency('rack',          '~> 1.1.0')
   s.add_dependency('rack-test',     '~> 0.5.0')
   s.add_dependency('rack-mount',    '~> 0.4.0')
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_pack/version.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_pack/version.rb
index ed0cdf38ee..4dde21dd40 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_pack/version.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_pack/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActionPack #:nodoc:
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/activemodel/activemodel.gemspec b/activemodel/activemodel.gemspec
index c3ff624419..64ae6e0760 100644
--- a/activemodel/activemodel.gemspec
+++ b/activemodel/activemodel.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'activemodel'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "A toolkit for building other modeling frameworks like ActiveRecord"
   s.description = %q{Extracts common modeling concerns from ActiveRecord to share between similar frameworks like ActiveResource.}
 
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.has_rdoc = true
 
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.0.beta')
 
   s.require_path = 'lib'
   s.files = Dir["CHANGELOG", "MIT-LICENSE", "README", "lib/**/*"]
diff --git a/activemodel/lib/active_model/version.rb b/activemodel/lib/active_model/version.rb
index 0c233b7b4f..f569447bc8 100644
--- a/activemodel/lib/active_model/version.rb
+++ b/activemodel/lib/active_model/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActiveModel
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/activerecord/activerecord.gemspec b/activerecord/activerecord.gemspec
index 4fd1a0213c..a8c990e3cb 100644
--- a/activerecord/activerecord.gemspec
+++ b/activerecord/activerecord.gemspec
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'activerecord'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM."
   s.description = %q{Implements the ActiveRecord pattern (Fowler, PoEAA) for ORM. It ties database tables and classes together for business objects, like Customer or Subscription, that can find, save, and destroy themselves without resorting to manual SQL.}
 
   s.files = Dir['CHANGELOG', 'README', 'examples/**/*', 'lib/**/*']
 
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.0.beta')
   s.add_dependency('arel',          '~> 0.2.0')
 
   s.require_path = 'lib'
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/version.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/version.rb
index 10ef9d7594..d55b14f082 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/version.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/activeresource/activeresource.gemspec b/activeresource/activeresource.gemspec
index ad2031c9e7..b7555228cd 100644
--- a/activeresource/activeresource.gemspec
+++ b/activeresource/activeresource.gemspec
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'activeresource'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "Think Active Record for web resources."
   s.description = %q{Wraps web resources in model classes that can be manipulated through XML over REST.}
 
   s.files = Dir['CHANGELOG', 'README', 'examples/**/*', 'lib/**/*']
 
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('activemodel',   '= 3.0.0.beta')
 
   s.require_path = 'lib'
   s.autorequire = 'active_resource'
diff --git a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/version.rb b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/version.rb
index 0f312eac39..952a0d3b5f 100644
--- a/activeresource/lib/active_resource/version.rb
+++ b/activeresource/lib/active_resource/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActiveResource
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/activesupport/activesupport.gemspec b/activesupport/activesupport.gemspec
index 19cdbaa41a..9e0b48278c 100644
--- a/activesupport/activesupport.gemspec
+++ b/activesupport/activesupport.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = "activesupport"
-  s.version = "3.0.pre"
+  s.version = "3.0.0.beta"
   s.date = "2009-09-01"
   s.summary = "Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework."
   s.description = %q{Utility library which carries commonly used classes and goodies from the Rails framework}
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/version.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/version.rb
index 3ae6150f2d..b92e469a08 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/version.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/rails.gemspec b/rails.gemspec
index b44dc27cb0..89681cb0aa 100644
--- a/rails.gemspec
+++ b/rails.gemspec
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'rails'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer, and ORM."
   s.description = <<-EOF
     Rails is a framework for building web-application using CGI, FCGI, mod_ruby, or WEBrick
     on top of either MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2, SQL Server, or Oracle with eRuby- or Builder-based templates.
   EOF
 
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport',    '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('actionpack',       '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('activerecord',     '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('activeresource',   '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('actionmailer',     '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('railties',         '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport',    '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('actionpack',       '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('activerecord',     '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('activeresource',   '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('actionmailer',     '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('railties',         '= 3.0.0.beta')
   s.add_dependency('bundler',          '>= 0.9.0.pre')
 
   s.rdoc_options << '--exclude' << '.'
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake
index 3f49a9a720..7095046f21 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/tasks/documentation.rake
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace :doc do
   desc 'Generate documentation for the Rails framework. Specify path with PATH="/path/to/rails"'
   Rake::RDocTask.new("rails") { |rdoc|
     path = ENV['RAILS_PATH'] || 'vendor/gems/gems'
-    version = '-3.0.pre' unless ENV['RAILS_PATH']
+    version = '-3.0.0.beta' unless ENV['RAILS_PATH']
     rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'doc/api'
     rdoc.template = "#{ENV['template']}.rb" if ENV['template']
     rdoc.title    = "Rails Framework Documentation"
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/version.rb b/railties/lib/rails/version.rb
index 9a65096061..c327d4545a 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/version.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/version.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Rails
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 3
     MINOR = 0
-    TINY  = "pre"
+    TINY  = "0.beta"
 
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end
diff --git a/railties/railties.gemspec b/railties/railties.gemspec
index c01636f1c1..62cfc1bbed 100644
--- a/railties/railties.gemspec
+++ b/railties/railties.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name = 'railties'
-  s.version = '3.0.pre'
+  s.version = '3.0.0.beta'
   s.summary = "Controls boot-up, rake tasks and generators for the Rails framework."
   s.description = <<-EOF
     Rails is a full-stack, web-application framework.
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_dependency('rake', '>= 0.8.3')
   s.add_dependency('thor', '~> 0.13')
-  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.pre')
-  s.add_dependency('actionpack', '= 3.0.pre')
+  s.add_dependency('activesupport', '= 3.0.0.beta')
+  s.add_dependency('actionpack', '= 3.0.0.beta')
 
   s.rdoc_options << '--exclude' << '.'
   s.has_rdoc = false