Ruby on Rails Wednesday, August 31, 2011


@Curtis Schofield: The customer is asking for more than just changes to
the CSS -- he wants different content and some additional views.  And I
agree that this could become a nightmare -- I plan to maintain a bill of
materials, SKUs and ECOs for each variant of the app.  That should help
some.


that will help you recoup costs - it will not help you maintain and scale your codebase - you are going to create yourself a nightmare the direction you are heading. 

I know it seems like Git can do this - but this is not what Git is for this is what software is for - skip to making new and
original mistakes - don't make the obviously avoidable ones.

 - see the following.

As far as running a biz around this :


As far as software patterns:

Check out the work on 'feature flags' 


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