After you have feature flags setup in your app, you’re likely to want to enable/disable them easily. Frequently this is done on more of an ad-hoc basis and doesn’t necessarily warrant an interface from within your app.
This sort of ad-hoc activity is a good match for Rake and Capistrano.
Rake Tasks
Here is a basic set of Rake tasks for enabling/disabling feature flags. Note – I’m using Mongoid for the ORM.
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Capistrano Recipe
We can leverage Capistrano to make the Rake tasks available remotely.
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Running the Recipe
Now, enabling or disabling a feature flag on an account is as easy as running a Capistrano recipe.
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