Flipper
Better knownFeature flags with a mountable UI, evaluated in-process
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "flipper"Flipper vs Solid Queue
Flipper and Solid Queue both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
Database-backed Active Job backend
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gem "solid_queue"What Flipper does
Feature flags that live in your own datastore, with a mountable UI for changing them. Boolean, actor, group and percentage-of-time gates Adapters for Active Record, Redis and others A web UI mounted in your app Flag checks that are a local lookup, not a network call A hosted flag service either adds a network hop to every check, or ships an SDK that caches and then eventually-consistently diverges. Flipper reads from a table you are already querying.
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces LaunchDarkly.
What Solid Queue does
Database-backed Active Job backend Solid Queue is a database-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. Installation Usage in development and other non-production environments Single database configuration Dashboard UI Setup Incremental adoption High performance requirements Workers, dispatchers, and scheduler 2477 stars on GitHub · MIT licensed · maintained by rails. Source: <https://github.com/rails/solid queue
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Flipper | Solid Queue | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Operations | Operations |
| Replaces (differs) | LaunchDarkly | — |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 3900 | 2477 |
| Gem (differs) | flipper | solid_queue |
| Mounts at (differs) | /flipper | — |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Questions
- What is the difference between Flipper and Solid Queue?
- Flipper and Solid Queue both sit in operations, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Flipper and Solid Queue in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.