I have done 2 things in the past: 1) Use the subscription feature in rubygems.org itself and then subscribe to the rss feed. It works, but it's a bit of a pain to subscribe to add which gems I am interested in.
2) For apps that I am maintaining, use 'bundler outdated' every so often. It list all gems with new releases, even the ones you are not specifying directly in your Gemfile, which adds a bit of noise. I had a bash script that would grep only the ones specifically I did specify in my Gemfile, but I can't find it at the moment. -- Ylan Segal On Friday, January 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ian Young wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has a good solution for keeping track of new releases > of the gems you're interested in (or really all software packages in general > -- I have the same problem with Node packages). More and more frequently, I > find that I want to be pinged when a new version of a gem has been published > because I'm waiting for a particular patch to land, or just because I want to > stay on top of it. > > Bigger projects will have a developer mailing list, but smaller projects > often don't (and I'm not always interested in subscribing to all the > developer chatter anyways). Watching the project on GitHub doesn't quite do > it, either - you get emails about issues opening and closing, but not when a > new tag is pushed. > > Right now I've rigged up a solution using Zapier and RubyGem's own webhook > API. It works pretty decent, but still involves a special curl invocation and > a few moving parts. Anyone have a better idea? > > Ian > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
