October CincyRb - Jim Weirich on Decoupling from Rails
What it is
A Cincinnati Ruby meetup talk by Jim Weirich on decoupling application logic from Rails. He argues for separating business logic from framework and database models.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited in HN debates on testing and clean architecture as a concrete example of keeping domain code separate from Rails so tests run fast.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2014, last 2017
What HN commenters said
“was quite interesting, and argued a complete separation of business logic from the model code”
Argues for separating business logic from models for testing.
theptip, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “Test Induced Design Damage? (2014)”
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Topics: rails, ruby, decoupling, unit testing, clean architecture
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