Is there a way to run bundle update in pretend mode, similar to the -p (pretend) flag for Rails generators or cap's -n (dry-run) flag?
I'm imagining something like:
$> bundle update -p
Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
The following gems have updated versions:
...
list of gems
...
Bundler 1.1 introduced a new 'outdated' feature, which is exactly what I was looking for. Pat Shaughnessy has a great write-up on the new features. In his words, bundle outdated
:
displays the gems it would download and install, but without actually
doing it. This gives me the freedom to inspect the list and update
just the gems I would like to.
This should make it a snap to see what gems are due for an update without actually modifying your source and local gems. Thanks Bundler!
$ bundle update
$ git diff Gemfile.lock
$ git checkout Gemfile.lock
I was looking specifically for how to only show the outdated gems that are in my gemfile. Looks like this does it: bundle outdated --only-explicit
That will 'Only list gems specified in your Gemfile, not their dependencies'
Source: https://bundler.io/man/bundle-outdated.1.html
Hopefully this is helpful for someone else.