Feature toggle exercise.

Using the Flip gem.

Scenarios

1. DB 

   Administrators complained that not having standardized roles has led to inconsistencies in the data so we want to make it a dropdown list.

   • Make a new table to hold available roles
   • Create a relationship with the user and role
   • There is existing data in the database (run rake db:seed)

2.  VALIDATION 

   We got a complaint that not everyone has a middle name so we want it to no longer be a required field.

   • Show what the required fields are
   • Show validation errors when a required field is not populated

3.  JS 

   It was determined it would be a better user experience that after a user updates a profile, they should see how it is changed in the card instead of refreshing the page.

   • Highlight user selection for the visible card
   • Create a hover state for the user list
   • After the user saves, show the updated changes on the user card

4.  ROUTES

   Routes are becoming hard to maintain and users cannot bookmark a page without going through all of the actions.

   • Make the profile route RESTful so it can be book marked and when invoked will pull up the users card when invoked
   • Modify the existing code to use this route when the toggle is on

5. API

   We decided our who_am_i API should be open to the public, but with some modifications.

   • We do not want to share a user's role
   • We want to rename the API to make it more appealing
   • We want to add the image URL to the JSON
   • Our existing code will also use this API

   We also want to test out if users prefer XKCD opposed to Chuck Norris.

   • Switch the joke module from the Chuck Norris API to XKCD Comic API.