Automatic dependency update PRs

[mattwynne]

🤔 What's the problem you've observed?

Renovate only looks at the Gemfile so most of our dependencies (which are in the .gemspec) are ignored.

✨ Do you have a proposal for making it better?

Take a look at https://github.com/marvin-bitterlich/renovate-gemspec-minimal-example and see if it works for us.

📚 Any additional context?

This is still an open issue on renovate.

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[mattwynne]

Doesn't seem to be working - If I run scripts/update-gemspec I can see that capybara has an update, so renovate should be picking that up.

I've enabled the dependency dashboard for now so we can trigger re-runs, and you can see detailed logging output from renovate at https://app.renovatebot.com/dashboard#github/cucumber/cucumber-ruby

at the moment it looks like it's ignoring the regex manager config:

INFO: Dependency extraction complete
{
  "baseBranch": "main",
  "stats": {
    "managers": {
      "bundler": {
        "fileCount": 1,
        "depCount": 8
      },
      "github-actions": {
        "fileCount": 4,
        "depCount": 10
      }
    },
    "total": {
      "fileCount": 5,
      "depCount": 18
    }
  }
}

[mattwynne]

Weird. In the logs I do see the regex manager running, and detecting the cucumber.gemspec file:

DEBUG: Matched 1 file(s) for manager bundler: Gemfile
DEBUG: Matched 4 file(s) for manager github-actions: .github/actions/test-ruby/action.yml, .github/workflows/cucumber-ruby.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/rubocop.yml
DEBUG: Matched 1 file(s) for manager regex: cucumber.gemspec

But it then seems to ignore it:

DEBUG: Found bundler package files
DEBUG: Found github-actions package files
DEBUG: Found 5 package file(s)

[mattwynne]

From the logs:

DEBUG: Manager explicitly enabled in "enabledManagers" config, but found no results. Possible config error?
{
  "manager": "regex"
}

[mattwynne]

I'm continuing my experiments in a fork of the minimal example

[mattwynne]

It looks to me like Dependabot might be a better candidate than Renovate. It's certainly able to draw a dependency graph from the .gemspec, but at the moment our Gemfile (with these environment variable overrides for paths) breaks it.

[mpkorstanje]

I've added the example provided in renovatebot/renovate#10616 (comment) to https://github.com/cucumber/renovate-config

[mpkorstanje]

You can now replace dependabot with Renovate.

Please use the contents of https://github.com/cucumber/renovate-config/blob/main/renovate.json .

[mattwynne]

Done, thanks for your help with this Rien! 🙏🏻