Obituary detects archived GitHub repositories for your RubyGem dependencies. It can be used as a CLI command in CI or as an RSpec matcher to keep dependency health visible.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add obituary

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install obituary

Set your GitHub token in the environment so the GitHub API can be queried.

export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_token_here

Obituary reads .obituary.yml from the project root by default.

include_transitive: false
github_token_env: "GITHUB_TOKEN"
ignore:
  - some_archived_but_ok_gem
overrides:
  some_gem: "https://github.com/owner/repo"

bundle exec obituary
bundle exec obituary --include-transitive
bundle exec obituary --format json

require "obituary/rspec"

RSpec.describe "Dependency health" do
  it "does not depend on archived gems" do
    expect(:bundle).not_to have_archived_gems
  end
end

name: Dependency Health Check
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 9 * * 1'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  check-archived:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          bundler-cache: true
      - run: gem install obituary
      - run: obituary check
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

• Only GitHub repositories are supported.
• Private repositories require a token with access.

After checking out the repo, run bundle exec rspec to run the tests.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.