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vikas nautiyal

Hi Vinicius,

Read the comment, also saw the 'Sail' repo.

Could you give few usecases, as to what the setting is? and how is it going to help a developer?

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Vinicius Stock • Edited

Settings have a variety of uses in a Rails application. The idea is changing the way it behaves live. You can really do anything you wish.

For instance, let's say you are comparing two different implementations and you want to AB test them. You can use a Boolean setting to choose which one you'd like to use at the moment.

Another example: say you are testing how many background job instances your server can handle at a given moment. You can use an Integer setting to configure that amount.

I have added two issues that are good first patches. Be my guest!

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vikas nautiyal

Hi Vinicius,

I've forked the repo and went through the issues. Though I don't fully understand the settings part. I will start by playing around with sail and will eventually pick up the issue.