Nightlight

Shed light on the dark corners of your app

Nightlight is an admin interface for tracking what pages are (not) being checked by your team

Features

Indicate when you've checked a page and leave a comment (all good? bugs? link to Trello card?)
See what pages haven't been checked in a while
Sync with GET routes from config/routes.rb, or maintain your own list of pages
Assign pages to yourself to check, and see who's already checking what
Get a random page to check that nobody else is checking

Keep fresh eyes on pages you don't see very often (onboarding, edge cases)
Discover things your automated tests aren't catching (CSS bugs, typos, bad impressions, forgot-to-update-that-too's)
Discover things that user feedback isn't catching
Improve product quality and internal product awareness (each person check a random page every day?)
Share page-level meta info across a team (useful notes, gotchyas, how-to's, please-don't's)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nightlight'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nightlight

Run the install generator:

rails g nightlight:install
rake db:migrate

And mount the dashboard in your config/routes.rb:

mount Nightlight::Engine, at: "nightlight"

Don’t forget to protect the dashboard in production.

Set the following variables in your environment or an initializer.

ENV["NIGHTLIGHT_USERNAME"] = "ben"
ENV["NIGHTLIGHT_PASSWORD"] = "secret"

authenticate :user, lambda{|user| user.admin? } do
  mount Nightlight::Engine, at: "nightlight"
end

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