In general I have varying levels of confidence in whether I want to stay at the latest version of a gem or not. I also don't want to have to constantly check t

In general I have varying levels of confidence in whether I want to stay at the latest version of a gem or not. I also don't want to have to constantly check to see if the gems for which I've fixed the version are the latest... During development I'd be inclined to keep most gems at the latest version (barring the sort of conflict you describe), but once the app is in production I'd be likely to be more cautious, read the changelog, etc., before updating. It's just that when there are a lot of gems in use, it becomes time consuming to have to cross-reference the lastest version of each gem whose version I have fixed with the latest released version. It seems that Bundler is the natural place for this functionality to live.