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byebug is a rubygems library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of byebug get paid by Tidelift to ensure byebug meets standardized secure software development practices.



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Thanks to maintainers working on projects like byebug, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.

You can feel confident bringing byebug into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of byebug are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

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Byebug is a Ruby debugger. It's implemented using the TracePoint C API for execution control and the Debug Inspector C API for call stack navigation. The core component provides support that front-ends can build on. It provides breakpoint handling and bindings for stack frames among other things and it comes with an easy to use command line interface.

Byebug permits the ability to understand what is going on inside a Ruby program while it executes and offers many of the typical ebugging features like:

  • Stepping, which is running your program one line at a time
  • Breaking, which is pausing the program at some event or specified instruction, to examine the current state
  • Evaluating
  • Tracking

Tidelift works directly with the maintainer of Byebig, David Rodriguez, to offer maintenance, code improvement, license verification, and security updates so you can use Byebug for debugging your app.

We spoke with Byebug maintainer, David, about how he got involved with the project.

Byebug is avaible via rubygems.

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The only source for human-validated data on secure software development practices for open source

Tidelift pays open source maintainers to ensure their projects follow industry-standard secure software development practices (like those found in the NIST Secure Software Development Framework and the OpenSSF Scorecards). We work together with our maintainer partners to provide this unique and valuable data, so you know if, when, and how your open source will be secured and maintained.
 Validated license
 2FA on source repository
 Validated versioning scheme
 2FA on package manager
 Release managers reviewed
 Documented maintenance plan
 Vulnerabilities have document review
 Validated source repository url
 Vulnerabilities have fixed release or documented mitigation available
 Discoverable security policy

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