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freshness score can be a positive indicator to understand whether you are staying current or gradually falling out of date.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In this article, I will discuss a couple of ways to keep track of how outdated or how fresh your dependencies really are.
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