Service layer for business logic – Organizing code in a Rails monolith (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsSteelWo1f3y ago3 comments

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Rails is great and so are monoliths. Read about one of the methods we use to build our Rails monolith at Aha! while ensuring it does not grow out of control.

barbarbar3y ago

Java Spring apps are sometimes (or even often) organized like this. The downside is that you jump around all over the place when making small changes. Also very visible when deleting features. Maybe a good test of the file structure is how easy it is to delete features without jumping around in 10 different places.

SteelWo1fOP3y ago

I can see that happening. But those changes are probably going to be relatively small and easy to understand. I dislike looking at pull requests where it's just a wall of red/green in a single file. It makes it almost impossible to figure out what the person has done.

I wonder how many other frameworks often see this type of organization?

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SteelWo1fOP3y ago

Rails is great and so are monoliths. Read about one of the methods we use to build our Rails monolith at Aha! while ensuring it does not grow out of control.

barbarbar3y ago

SteelWo1fOP3y ago

I wonder how many other frameworks often see this type of organization?

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