A Rails engine to turn on/off features (Feature flipper).
Features
- Manage features with notices
- Manage site notices with themes
Prerequisites
- Rails version 5 and above
- MySQL
Getting Started
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'plug'
Execute:
→ bundle
And run the install generator:
→ rails g plug:install
→ rails plug:install:migrations
→ rails db:migrate
→ rails s
Usage
Go to localhost:3000/plug
and start creating features.
Use the provided method to check if the feature is enabled.
Plug.enabled?('my-awesome-feature-slug')
If you wanted to restrict routes, you can use Plug::Constraint
class
Rails.application.routes.draw do
resources :blog, constraint: Plug::Constraint.new('my-awesome-feature-slug')
end
Notices can be displayed using the Plug.notice
method.
<%= Plug.notice('my-awesome-feature-slug') %>
If you have custom HTML for notice, you can pass a block.
<% Plug.notice('my-awesome-feature-slug') do |notice| %>
<div class="alert">
<p><%= notice %></p>
</div>
<% end %>
Buttons
Add buttons to the config block to perform rake tasks from the plug dashboard
config.buttons = [
{ label: 'Clear cache', task: 'tmp:cache:clear' }
]
Themes
Themes can be added in Site Notices. Themes are just string stored in the database. You still need to style the theme.
By default, we have default
and dark
in config/plug.rb
. Below is an example on how you can utilise the theme string.
- theme_class = "site-notice--#{site_notice.theme}"
.site-notice{ class: theme_class }
%p My site notice
// BEM
.site-notice {
@include modifier('default') {
...
}
@include modifier('dark') {
...
}
}
Creating new migrations
→ rails g migration MyAwesomeMigration
→ rails g model MyModel name:string slug:string:index
→ rails db:migrate
→ rails db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test
→ rake plug:install:migrations # Run this on the app to copy the new migrations
Running the tests
→ bundle exec rspec spec
Publishing to rubygems.org
Make sure to bump the version. Rubygems don't accept version overrides.
→ gem build plug.gemspec
→ gem push plug-<version>.gem
Publishing to npmjs.com
Make sure to match the version with the Rubygems version.
→ npm login
→ npm publish --access public
TODOs
- Ability to disable all features using one button
- Add screenshot
- Allow block parameters for
enabled?
method - Versioning of features
- History of feature activities
Questions/Issues?
File a new issue if you have questions or issues.
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/boost/digitalnz/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-awesome-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add my awesome feature!'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-awesome-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request