Service Object

inspired by active_service .

Service Object is a service object abstraction which implement service-object-pattern introduced by http://brewhouse.io/blog/2014/04/30/gourmet-service-objects.html .

It is lightweight and fast, almost no performance loss. It's testing friendly, works great with all test framework like minitest/rspec.

It also add a service layer in Rails, you can use Rails generator to generate service file like controller and model.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'service-object'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Declare a service like so:

class AcceptInvite

  def self.call(invite, user)
    invite.accept!(user)
    UserMailer.invite_accepted(invite).deliver
  end

end

Rails generator

If you are using Rails:

rails g service AcceptInvite

It will create template service files in app/services and test/services.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/leihb/service_object )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request