bundler_date

BundlerDate

What?

Bundle has great command bundle outdated to compare installed gems with newer versions available. It does its job but there is one problem.

Let's try it:

$ bundle outdated

Gem              Current  Latest  Requested  Groups
loofah           2.14.0   2.15.0  = 2.14.0   default
sinatra          2.1.0    2.2.0   = 2.1.0    default

Okay, we see that we have almost edge versions of each gem. The difference is one minor version for both. Is it a big difference? We can't say definitely.

But at least we can check when these versions were released. What will we see?

• loofash 2.14.0 was released in February 2022, 2.15.0 in March 2022
• sinatra 2.1.0 was released in 2020(!), 2.2.0 was released in 2022.

See the difference? bundle date try to show it more explicit.

$ bundle date
 Gem              Current  Current Date  Latest  Latest Date  Days between 

 loofah           2.14.0   2022-02-11    2.15.0  2022-03-14   31           
 sinatra          2.1.0    2020-09-04    2.2.0   2022-03-19   561          

Installation

Specify the plugin in your Gemfile:

plugin 'bundler_date'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ bundle plugin install bundler_date

Usage

$ bundle date