elm-city-craftworks/practicing-ruby-web — pull request #26 by sandal (2012-03-19 22:22:38+00:00)
Title: Beta test mode

Hey @jordanbyron, this is what I ended up doing for beta testing. Right now it's the filter only (no features have been marked as beta yet), but it does make a shiny beta button appear / disappear. The user can toggle this setting via their profile, and eventually the beta badge will link to a page explaining what this is all about.

Have a question for you inline in the source, but happy to hear any other thoughts you have. Note, I'm not particularly interested in the security of this feature, I plan to use it mainly to hide links in the UI or render different views depending on whether the beta option is set.