Whether you are working in a legacy Ruby application, or a brand new application, measuring your dependency freshness score can be a positive indicator to understand whether you are staying current or gradually falling out of date.

Dependency freshness is defined as the difference between the currently used version of a dependency and the version that the system would ideally use.

In this article, I share a couple of ways to keep track of how outdated or how fresh your dependencies really are.

Read more: How and Why to Measure Dependency Freshness in Your Ruby Application