ActiveRecord::Rollout

Rollouts for ActiveRecord models. It is a spiritual fork of ArRollout.

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'active_record_rollout', require: 'active_record/rollout'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install active_record_rollout

Usage

ActiveRecord::Rollout works by determining whether or not a specific record should have features accessible to it based on individual flags, flags for a percentage of records, or flags for a programmable group of records.

Marking a model as flaggable

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_flaggable
end

Or, in order to user emails rather than IDs to identify records in rake tasks:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_flaggable find_by: :email
end

This module adds has_many associations to User for flaggable_flags (where the user has been individually flagged into a feature), opt_out_flags (where the user has been opted out of a feature), and features (the features that the user has been individually flagged into, regardless of opt outs).

However, these methods aren't enough to determine whether or not the user is flagged into a specific feature. The #has_feature? method provided by ActiveRecord::Rollout::Flaggable should be used for this.

Determining if a record is flagged into a feature

#has_feature? has two methods of use. The first one, where it is passed a block, will increment a failure_count on the given feature if the block raises an exception (the exception is again raised after incrementing). This currently does not alter the behavior of the feature, but it services a metrics purpose:

current_user.has_feature? :new_user_interface do
  render_new_user_interface
end

When not given a block, it simply returns a boolean, and does not watch for exceptions:

if current_user.has_feature? :new_user_interface
  render_new_user_interface
end

Want to make use of both? #has_feature? returns a boolean even when passed a block:

if current_user.has_feature? :new_user_interface do
  render_new_user_interface
end; else
  render_old_user_interface
end

Feature operations

Features and flags are intended to be controlled by a rake tasks. To create them programmatically, consult the documentation.

Creating features

$ bundle exec rake rollout:create[new_ui]

Destroying features

$ bundle exec rake rollout:destroy[new_ui]

Flagging a record into a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, the record's class, and the record's ID.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:activate[new_ui,User,2]

Removing a flag-in for a record for a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, the record's class, and the record's ID.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:deactivate[new_ui,User,2]

Opt a record out of a feature

This will ensure that record.has_feature?(:feature) will always be false for the given feature, regardless of other individual flag, percentage, or group rollouts that would otherwise target this record.

This task requires passing the feature name, the record's class, and the record's ID.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:opt_out[new_ui,User,2]

Un-opt out a record from a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, the record's class, and the record's ID.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:un_opt_out[new_ui,User,2]

Flag a programmatic group into a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, the record class for the group, and the name of the group.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:activate_group[new_ui,User,admins]

Remove a flag-in for a programmatic group for a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, the record class for the group, and the name of the group.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:deactivate_group[new_ui,User,admins]

Flag a percentage of records into a feature

This relies on the following formula to determine if a record is flagged in to a feature based on percentage:

record.id % 10 < percentage / 10

This task requires passing the feature name, the record class for the group, and the percentage of records to be flagged in.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:activate_percentage[new_ui,User,20]

Remove a flag-in for a percentage of records for a feature

This task requires passing the feature name, and the record class for the group.

$ bundle exec rake rollout:deactivate_percentage[new_ui,User]

Defining a default class

In order to provide passing a class name into rake tasks, a default class can be set:

ActiveRecord::Rollout.configure do |config|
  config.default_flaggable_class_name = "User"
end

Then, in your rake tasks:

# Will activate feature "foo" for all instances of User that match the admins group.
$ bundle exec rake rollout:activate_group[foo,admins]

Defining programmatic groups

A specific group of records matching a given block can be flagged into a feature. In order to define these groups, use ActiveRecord::Rollout.configure:

ActiveRecord::Rollout.configure do |config|
  # Any User that returns truthy for `user.admin?` will be included in this
  # group: `admins`.
  config.define_user_group :admins do |user|
    user.admin?
  end

  # Any FizzBuzz that returns truthy for `fizz_buzz.bar?` will be included in
  # this group: `is_bar`.
  config.define_fizz_buzz_group :is_bar do |fizz_buzz|
    fizz_buzz.bar?
  end
end

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( http://github.com//active_record_rollout/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request