ximus / ruby-client

LaunchDarkly SDK for Ruby

LaunchDarkly SDK for Ruby

Quick setup

0. Install the Ruby SDK with gem

gem install ldclient-rb

1. Require the LaunchDarkly client:

require 'ldclient-rb'

2. Create a new LDClient with your SDK key:

client = LaunchDarkly::LDClient.new("your_sdk_key")

Ruby on Rails

0. Add gem 'ldclient-rb' to your Gemfile and bundle install

1. Initialize the launchdarkly client in config/initializers/launchdarkly.rb:

Rails.configuration.ld_client = LaunchDarkly::LDClient.new("your_sdk_key")

2. You may want to include a function in your ApplicationController

    def launchdarkly_settings
      if current_user.present?
        {
          key: current_user.id,
          anonymous: false,
          email: current_user.email,
          custom: { groups: current_user.groups.pluck(:name) },
          # Any other fields you may have
          # e.g. lastName: current_user.last_name,
        }
      else
        if Rails::VERSION::MAJOR <= 3
          hash_key = request.session_options[:id]
        else
          hash_key = session.id
        end
        # session ids should be private to prevent session hijacking
        hash_key = Digest::SHA256.base64digest hash_key
        {
          key: hash_key,
          anonymous: true,
        }
      end
    end

3. In your controllers, access the client using

Rails.application.config.ld_client.variation('your.flag.key', launchdarkly_settings, false)

Note that this gem will automatically switch to using the Rails logger it is detected.

Your first feature flag

1. Create a new feature flag on your dashboard
2. In your application code, use the feature's key to check whether the flag is on for each user:

if client.variation("your.flag.key", {key: "[email protected]"}, false)
  # application code to show the feature
else
  # the code to run if the feature is off
end

Learn more

Check out our documentation for in-depth instructions on configuring and using LaunchDarkly. You can also head straight to the complete reference guide for this SDK.

Testing

We run integration tests for all our SDKs using a centralized test harness. This approach gives us the ability to test for consistency across SDKs, as well as test networking behavior in a long-running application. These tests cover each method in the SDK, and verify that event sending, flag evaluation, stream reconnection, and other aspects of the SDK all behave correctly.

Contributing

See Contributing

About LaunchDarkly

• LaunchDarkly is a continuous delivery platform that provides feature flags as a service and allows developers to iterate quickly and safely. We allow you to easily flag your features and manage them from the LaunchDarkly dashboard. With LaunchDarkly, you can:
  • Roll out a new feature to a subset of your users (like a group of users who opt-in to a beta tester group), gathering feedback and bug reports from real-world use cases.
  • Gradually roll out a feature to an increasing percentage of users, and track the effect that the feature has on key metrics (for instance, how likely is a user to complete a purchase if they have feature A versus feature B?).
  • Turn off a feature that you realize is causing performance problems in production, without needing to re-deploy, or even restart the application with a changed configuration file.
  • Grant access to certain features based on user attributes, like payment plan (eg: users on the ‘gold’ plan get access to more features than users in the ‘silver’ plan). Disable parts of your application to facilitate maintenance, without taking everything offline.
• LaunchDarkly provides feature flag SDKs for
  • Java
  • [JavaScript] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/js-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly JavaScript SDK")
  • [PHP] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/php-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly PHP SDK")
  • [Python] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/python-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly Python SDK")
  • [Go] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/go-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly Go SDK")
  • [Node.JS] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/node-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly Node SDK")
  • [.NET] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/dotnet-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly .Net SDK")
  • [Ruby] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/ruby-sdk-reference "LaunchDarkly Ruby SDK")
  • [Python Twisted] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/python-twisted "LaunchDarkly Python Twisted SDK")
• Explore LaunchDarkly
  • [www.launchdarkly.com] (http://www.launchdarkly.com/ "LaunchDarkly Main Website") for more information
  • [docs.launchdarkly.com] (http://docs.launchdarkly.com/ "LaunchDarkly Documentation") for our documentation and SDKs
  • [apidocs.launchdarkly.com] (http://apidocs.launchdarkly.com/ "LaunchDarkly API Documentation") for our API documentation
  • [blog.launchdarkly.com] (http://blog.launchdarkly.com/ "LaunchDarkly Blog Documentation") for the latest product updates