Is optimist safe to use?

optimist has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.2.1). DepScope rates its health at 52/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of optimist?

The latest version of optimist is 3.2.1, released 2025-03-19.

Does optimist have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of optimist.

Is optimist deprecated?

No, optimist is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.2.1 (2025-03-19).

What are alternatives to optimist?

Popular alternatives to optimist in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, crass, tzinfo.

What license does optimist use?

optimist is licensed under MIT.

optimist

rubygemsv3.2.1

Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way. One line of code per option is all you need to write. For that, you get a nice automatically-generated help page, robust option parsing, command subcompletion, and sensible defaults for everything you don't specify.

License MITpermissive5 versions0 deps5,584,568 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 52/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

5/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

3/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.0/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

50%

GitHub stars

257

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.45medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

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