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Green Flag

A feature-flag system that makes it really easy for application developers to add and manage features. You can roll out features to a percentage of your users, or you can define groups to see the new feature. Want to test a new feature on 50% of your premium-plan users named "Fred"? GreenFlag can do that.

Status: Recently extracted from a running application. The current version is just enough for us to use it as a gem. Some of the niceties (like this document) are pretty rough.

New feature? Just do this:

In a controller or view, check for a feature:

if feature_enabled?(:my_awesome_feature)
  # New hotness
else
  # Old stuff
end

That's it. You don't have to create a feature record (it's done automatically).
You don't have to figure out who should see the feature - that's set up in the admin web interface.

Features are off by default - so if you deploy your new code, no one will get the new hotness until you open it up with the admin web interface.

How it works

TODO: explain about visitors, users and features.

Installation

Requirements

• Rails 3
• Postgres
• User class, and current_user controller method

TODO: Some of this should be scripted with a generator

• Normal engine install process
• Install/run migrations
• Create an initializer to define visitor groups
• Mount admin in routes.rb

Admin panel

TODO: explain all of the stuff on the admin panel