Set specific Redis DB for FunWithFlagsUI?

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Background

We are using FunWithFlagsUI to check the flags we have on our Redis instance. Since Redis has several DBs one can choose from, this raises a problem - we need to tell the UI which Redis DB to use.

Problem

After reading the docs, I couldn’t find any option to do that. By default, the UI will always read from Redis DB 1, which is not where our flags are.

Is there a way to tell the UI which Redis DB to use?

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Looking at the code this should be configurable through the config. You should be able to use those opions that Redix allows you to use

Hope that helps

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The configuration section of the FunWithFlags README shows setting the database either in the keyword list, or as part of the URL.

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It turns out that to configure the UI, I have to use the configurations for the base library, i.e. FunWithFlags.

This was not clear to me when reading the docs for the UI. In my specific case:

config :fun_with_flags, :redis, database: 5

Did the trick.

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Worth considering submitting a PR to the fwf_ui project to mention configuration explicitly in their README.

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