“Not a CRUD app” isn’t a design decision, it’s just that storefront is almost entirely read-only, and the views are merchant-provided Liquid code. Most of a shop's data can be accessed on any page; data dependencies are in large part defined by the view, not the controller.
Oh I Know. As a Rails developer for 10 years, I'm always interested what patterns are developed when straying away from what the original guts of Rails.
