FFlags

Feature flags that can be overwritten on the fly. It could be per instance or per environment. Depending on how you set your key, either dynamically per instance or constant per environment.

It uses Redis to store the information, and the size should be very small, depending on how many flags you need to track.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

ruby gem 'fflags'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fflags

How to Configure FFlags

To configure the FFlags,

ruby FFlags.config { |config .. }

Supported Configs

Config Description Default
key Key to store the flags, in Redis, it would look something like, { key: <flags as a Hash> } code3.io
flags     Flags to be tracked as a Hash, and value as a boolean) {}
redis_url Redis url, where the flags will be stored redis://127.0.0.1:6379
debug For debugging, NOT BEING USED RIGHT NOW false

Example of Usage

  • If you want the flags to be unique per instance, you can use hostname of the instance as such:

ruby FFlags.config do |config| config.key = Socket.gethostname config.flags = { new_view: true } end

  • If you want the flags to be unique per environment, you can use the key as such:

ruby FFlags.config do |config| config.key = Rails.environment, config.flags = { new_view: true } end

Then in the code,

```ruby # Verify if the flag is enabled if FFlags.enabled?(:new_view) # Do something end # or if FFlags.new_view? # Do something end

Overwrite flag

FFlags.toggle(:new_view) # or FFlags.set(:new_view, false)

To reset, and get back to the default settings.

FFlags.reset ```

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle install to install dependencies. Then, run rspec to run the tests.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/faizalzakaria/fflags.

License

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