Ruby Debugging Tools

Open-source Ruby projects categorized as Debugging Tools

Top 9 Ruby Debugging Tool Projects

Debugging Tools
  1. Byebug

    Debugging in Ruby 2

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  3. Pry Byebug

    Step-by-step debugging and stack navigation in Pry

    Project mention: Debugging in Ruby with pry-byebug | dev.to | 2024-05-22

    The setup is really simple. Just add the pry-byebug gem to your Gemfile, and then run bundle install. I'd advise you to add it to the development and test groups to debug tests as well.

  4. did_you_mean

    The gem that has been saving people from typos since 2014

    Project mention: Let's Read - Eloquent Ruby - Ch 21 | dev.to | 2024-10-03

    ...which you might recognize as an earlier variant of the "Did You Mean" gem:

  5. Rails Footnotes

    Every Rails page has footnotes that gives information about your application and links back to your editor

  6. Seeing Is Believing

    Displays the results of every line of code in your file

  7. Xray

    ☠️ A development tool that reveals your UI's bones

    Project mention: Revise Your Stylesheets. Part 1. Color Scheme | dev.to | 2024-06-07

    A few words about tools. I will use NodeJS v5.9 and es6 features such as template string, map datatype and destructuring assignment. Xray-rails gem for dispatching get requests to your selected editor or IDE.

  8. dbg-rb

    Minimal, Rust-inspired, puts debugging helper, adding file and line number info.

    Project mention: Dbg-rb: Minimal, Rust-inspired, puts debugging helper for Ruby | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-10
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  10. rails_tracepoint_stack

    A formatted output of all methods called in your rails application of code created by the developer, with the complete path to the class/module, including passed params.

  11. FlowTrace

    Brand new remote app inspecting tool. Declare feature steps and receive params, stack trace and whatever you want.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Dbg-rb: Minimal, Rust-inspired, puts debugging helper for Ruby

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2024
  • Let's Read - Eloquent Ruby - Ch 21

    1 project | dev.to | 3 Oct 2024
  • Revise Your Stylesheets. Part 1. Color Scheme

    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2024
  • Debugging in Ruby with pry-byebug

    1 project | dev.to | 22 May 2024
  • Why does pry/Zeitwerk have issues loading constants in breakpoint context?

    2 projects | /r/rails | 1 May 2023
  • How can you debug Rspec tests with VSCode?

    1 project | /r/ruby | 20 Apr 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Debugging Tool projects in Ruby? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Byebug 3,337
2 Pry Byebug 2,010
3 did_you_mean 1,869
4 Rails Footnotes 1,523
5 Seeing Is Believing 1,309
6 Xray 1,224
7 dbg-rb 56
8 rails_tracepoint_stack 25
9 FlowTrace 10

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