Open source playground

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We maintain a privately hosted Ruby agent playground repository with a variety of test bed style Ruby applications that help us put the agent through its paces and ensure compatibility with a wide variety of third party gem versions and application configurations.

We have also been using GitHub gists, Explorer's Hub posts, tickets, etc. to share demonstration and/or debugging code directly with customers.

I want us to take our playground public and position it to better our customer relations and engagement.

• Any of our existing trivial code snippets in our HTML documentation could be updated with links to the richer code bases in the playground.
• Frequently asked questions could be addressed with code patterns that are shared in a central location
• Rich demonstrations can be offered for all supported gem instrumentation

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https://issues.newrelic.com/browse/NR-159404

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Here are publicly available .NET examples for reference (in a branch currently):

https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-dotnet-examples/tree/initial-migration

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Based on some recent discussions about having a central newrelic public GitHub namespaced spot for sandbox/playground apps, we're currently leaning towards just grabbing the existing Ruby agent CLM demo and putting it in a subdirectory and launching the repo starting with just that one subdirectory. We can worry about scrubbing all of the other internal apps for open sourcing later.