Featureswitches

A Ruby gem for interacting with FeatureSwitches.com. This library is under active development and is likely to change frequently. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'featureswitches'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install featureswitches

fs = FeatureSwitches.new('customer_api_key', 'environment_api_key', {options})

# Ensure that the API credentials are valid
result = fs.authenticate  # result will be true/false to indicate success

# Add a user
result = fs.add_user('user_identifier', 'optional_customer_identifier', 'optional_name', 'optional_email')

# Check if a feature is enabled
result = fs.is_enabled('feature_key', 'optional_user_identifier', default_return_value(true/false, default=false))

if result
    # Feature enabled, do something
else
    # Feature disabled, do something else
end

A few options are available to be tweaked if you so choose. The library makes use of a local cache to minimize requests back to the FeatureSwitches server. Additionally, a check it performed at an interval to automatically re-sync feature state when changes are made in the dashboard.

{
    :cache_timeout => SECONDS, # optional, defaults to 300 seconds
    :check_interval => SECONDS # optional, defaults to 10 seconds
}

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/featureswitches/featureswitches-ruby.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.