Statesman
A statesmanlike state machine library. (by gocardless)
FeatureFlags
Feature flags for Rails application.Manages ‘flags’ within your Rails app that determine whether various features are enabled or not. (by pandurang90)
| Statesman | FeatureFlags | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | - | |
| 1,813 | 71 | |
| 0.4% | - | |
| 1.7 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | over 9 years ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Statesman
Posts with mentions or reviews of Statesman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-22.
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A Deep Dive into the Statesman Gem for Ruby: Building Flexible State Machines
Statesman was developed by the team GoCardless to address some of the limitations in other state machine gems like AASM or state_machine. It offers:
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Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)
I’d strongly recommend Statesman instead: https://gocardless.com/blog/statesman/
I’m unaffiliated, just have used a lot of Ruby SM libraries.
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State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
Honestly state machines are fantastic in Rails too. My last company built [Statesman](https://github.com/gocardless/statesman/) and being able to lean on it to prevent you getting into invalid states is fantastic. You also get the bonus of tracking the history of states your resources went through (which is especially useful when you're dealing with payments).
At some point you'll have to think about query performance on the state transition table, but it'll go further than you think and is firmly in the realm of problems of success.
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Code review of an Order object implemented as a state machine
I know you were doing educational proof of concent. But when I write them, I usually reach for the statesman gem. Makes state machines pretty trivial IME.
FeatureFlags
Posts with mentions or reviews of FeatureFlags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning FeatureFlags yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Statesman and FeatureFlags you can also consider the following projects:
AASM - AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)
FiniteMachine - A minimal finite state machine with a straightforward syntax.
State Machine - Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class
simple_states - A super-slim statemachine-like support library
transitions - State machine extracted from ActiveModel