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https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ If you’d like a list of maintained gems! They even show activity stats for each gem.

• inopinatus 2y ago
  Yes - Ruby Toolbox is handy, one of the discovery and currency assessment tools I use too, and is good at surfacing projects that are actively developed, but it takes a metric driven approach that's intrinsically weak at distinguishing between abandoned code and stable code. It won't reveal when a decaying gem will cause other dependencies to be held back, and Ruby Toolbox suffers from the same fundamental blindness to compatibility with specific language editions that RubyGems has. Since it’s not a part of RubyGems, it ultimately can't offer a reliable barrier to inadvertently installing bitrotted code. None of this is meant as a criticism of Ruby Toolbox, because it never claimed to do all that, nor can we expect it to. All said & done, and to reframe things more constructively, I think there's a missing piece in the community infrastructure puzzle that someone could fill if they had the time, inclination, and build farm to do it.