OOP vs. services for organizing business logic: is there a third way?

1. learn-ruby

   1 17 848 9.1 Ruby

   Learning resources for Ruby, Rails, and related skills.

   

   So I've set out to explore the problem of organizing business logic from more angles than before, using the resources listed below. These lists are excerpted from my "Learning Ruby" road map which I often update, so you may want to find these lists there if this post is old at the time of your reading it. The sections corresponding to the lists below are, at the time of writing, "Rails architecture" and "Rails codebases".

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. Interactor

   2 18 3,453 4.7 Ruby

   Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex user interactions.

   

   Interactor

4. Rails Event Store

   3 6 1,535 9.2 Ruby

   A Ruby implementation of an Event Store based on Active Record

   

   Rails Event Store – for an event-driven architecture

5. ventable

   4 1 62 6.4 Ruby

   Event/Observable support for plain ruby with options for grouping observers and wrapping notifications in blocks of code, such as transaction handling.

   

   Ventable – a variation of the Observer design pattern

6. wisper

   5 6 3,328 4.2 Ruby

   A micro library providing Ruby objects with Publish-Subscribe capabilities

   

   Wisper – the Publish-Subscribe design pattern

7. packwerk

   6 19 1,874 5.9 Ruby

   Good things come in small packages.

   

   Packwerk – to enforce boundaries and modularize Rails applications

8. CodeTriage

   7 93 1,460 6.5 Ruby

   Discover the best way to get started contributing to Open Source projects

   

   github.com/codetriage/codetriage (6k lines): Issue tracker for open-source projects.

9. railsdevs.com

   8 60 803 3.0 Ruby

   Discontinued The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers.

   

   github.com/joemasilotti/railsdevs.com (12k lines): The reverse job board for Ruby on Rails developers.

10. Lobsters

    9 318 4,690 9.8 Ruby

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

    

    github.com/lobsters/lobsters (13k lines): Hacker News clone.

11. upcase

    10 9 339 7.5 Ruby

    Sharpen your programming skills.

    

    github.com/thoughtbot/upcase (14k lines): Learning platform for developers.

12. HoundCI

    11 2 2,002 0.6 Ruby

    Discontinued Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. [GET https://api.github.com/repos/houndci/hound: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository] (by houndci)

    

    github.com/houndci/hound (14k lines): Automated code review for GitHub PRs.

13. RubyGems

    12 27 2,430 9.8 Ruby

    The Ruby community's gem hosting service.

    

    github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org (26k lines): Where Ruby gems are hosted.

14. Solidus

    13 16 5,302 9.7 Ruby

    🛒 Solidus, the open-source eCommerce framework for industry trailblazers.

    

    github.com/solidusio/solidus (72k lines): E-commerce platform.

15. Mastodon

    14 1,260 49,998 10.0 Ruby

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

    

    github.com/mastodon/mastodon (75k lines): Like Twitter but self-hosted and federated.

16. forem

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    For empowering community 🌱

    

    github.com/forem/forem (103k lines): Powers the blogging site dev.to.

17. whitehall

    16 12 1,004 10.0 Ruby

    Publishes government content on GOV.UK

    

    github.com/alphagov/whitehall (117k lines): Publishes government content on gov.uk.

18. Discourse

    17 212 47,190 10.0 Ruby

    A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

    

    github.com/discourse/discourse (322k lines): Discussion forum platform.

19. Canvas LMS

    18 43 6,673 10.0 Ruby

    The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.

    

    github.com/instructure/canvas-lms (745k lines): A popular LMS (learning management system).

20. gitlab

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    gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab (1.8 million lines): Like GitHub but with CI/CD and DevOps features built in. Has great docs on architecture.

21. Sequent

    20 5 560 8.8 Ruby

    CQRS & event sourcing framework for Ruby

    

    Sequent – CQRS and event sourcing

22. govuk-puppet

    21 405 125 9.3 Puppet

    Discontinued Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.

    

    Publishes government content on gov.uk.

23. Hanami

    22 25 6,371 8.7 Ruby

    A flexible framework for maintainable Ruby apps

    

    Data Oriented Web Development with Ruby (upcoming book) by Peter Solnica, who is on the Hanami core team. Learning Hanami wouldn't be a bad idea either.

24. dry-transaction

    23 2 476 7.9 Ruby

    Business transaction DSL

    

    dry-transaction

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