rollout.io
optimizely.com
launchdarkly
The above services are bulldozers for many applications. Large companies rely on their added features like shiny dashboards and sugar methods.
Andy's dictionary:
Feature flag: allows your system to conditionally show a feature to a customer.
Feature flags are an abstraction on top of your basic programming conditionals. They house the logic of your underlying features a customer should or should not be able to access.
Imagine a scenario where you're wrapping up a feature for your SaSS. It's ready to go, however - you'd be more confident if a few customers can test it out.
More or less... beta testing.
The above services can prove to be hefty for smaller projects. You might not have many users yet. Your codebase might not be the size of an enterprise. Did I mention those services are mostly bulldozers? Where the shovel at?
I got your shovel. Integrating feature flags to Ruby projects can be accomplished using Rollout. It's minimal in it's approach and reads well. It doesn't hurt that the project has few outstanding Github issues in it's queue.
Rollout also scales well. Kajabi has a generous user base. We're releasing features non stop! We've built features on top of Rollout for our needs and it's still in use, today.
Back to our contrived example, let's say you're adding an affiliate program. You have a founders group and want to ensure they get their hands on it, first!
After installing the gem, define/activate your group and use conditionally write your markup like so:
# config/initializers.rb
$rollout.define_group(:founders) do |user|
user.plan_name == "founder"
end
$rollout.activate_group(:affiliate_program, :founders)
<!-- index.html.erb -->
<html>
<body>
<% if $rollout.active?(:affiliate_program) %>
<%= render "affiliate_program" %>
<% else %>
<%= render "something_else" %>
<% end %>
</body>
</html>
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