flipt VS flipper

We at https://flipt.io are putting on a buy vs build webinar in a couple of weeks to discuss this very thing as it's a common question that engineering teams seem to have.

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We're currently evaluating OPA for adding RBAC to our open-source application [0]. We plan on using the Go API [1] and doing the policy eval directly in our app since our app is also written in Go.

The thinking is we'll have some basic built-in policies (like admins can do X, editors can do Y, etc) but also allow users to configure their own policies if they want by writing rego and loading their policy rules at startup time (via config). We'd document the inputs that we pass to the evaluation call such as request headers, IP, role, etc.

I'm curious if anyone has ever tried something like this or similar?

[0] https://github.com/flipt-io/flipt

[1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/integration/#int...

Flipt - Clickhouse integration for flag eval analytics

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I think you are calling it Runtime Controls: https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper/issues/162

Flipper is a gem that makes feature flags and different ways to toggle them available in Rails. It is highly modular. Apart from the main gem, you'll also have to pick a storage adapter — but more on that later. Let's use the ActiveRecord adapter for now.

Since Honeybadger is a Ruby shop, we use the flipper gem.

The next step came about when I learned more about our use of Flipper; a Ruby gem for dynamically toggling on and off features. I didn’t know when the feature would roll out, but I wanted control over the feature. I also wanted admins of other Forems to have control as well. This was trivial with Flipper. Once I deployed the code, Forem’s got the original behavior unless they turned “flipped” on the feature.

flipper with Flipper UI to enable flag management

What advantages does your gem have over Flipper?