GoRuCo 2012 Hexagonal Rails by Matt Wynne
What it is
Matt Wynne's GoRuCo 2012 talk on why Rails apps get hard to change as they grow, and how a ports-and-adapters hexagonal architecture separates application logic from the framework.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a resource for decoupling Rails code and for faster tests.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2012, last 2014
What HN commenters said
“I'd recommend watching (Hexagonal Rails GoRuCo talk) for one way to re-architect”
Hexagonal architecture to avoid callback interdependencies.
jameskilton, 2012-08 · Recommendation · in “Rails, callbacks, workers, and the race you never expected to lose”
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Topics: rails, ports and adapters, ruby, decoupling, testing
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