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Discussion on: Who's looking for open source contributors? (September 10 edition)

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Vinicius Stock

Hey, folks

I have created a Rails engine to bring in settings to control an application's behaviour while live.

There are two points I would appreciate collaboration:

  • Making the control dashboard design more elegant and better looking
  • Expanding the types of settings available

Suggestions or contributions welcome!

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Ben Halpern

This is cool, can you describe why I might choose this over other libs for feature flags etc.

I’d love to be sold further, do tell!

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Vinicius Stock

I've observed in a few projects the number of settings and their complexity grow a lot, sometimes to a point where you had such a variety of knobs and switches it would become hard to navigate.

My idea behind the engine is to have a simple, yet solid, interface to programatically set and get values for settings and to have a rich dashboard allowing for easy control.

Currently, the dashboard has few features, but I would be nice to be able to cluster settings based on which portion of the application they affect (like a category of sorts), allow searching, maybe even allow listing the APIs that are impacted by each setting, etc.

I believe that with the right design, it could be a tool to easily manage all application settings in a painless manner.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions!

Thanks!