Component-based Architectures in Ruby and Rails

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Walks through eight architectures from a single Rails app to namespaced modules, local path gems, Rails engines, an event counter engine and finally HTTP services, demonstrating concrete steps: extract component into a path gem, run its specs independently, embed as an engine with migrations and assets, refactor models into a single-purpose service class, publish the gem and swap a path reference for a versioned dependency; tests run in parallel and the refactorings verify they actually work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:10Give yourself a box so you can start thinking outside of it
3. 11:07A higher level structure
4. 15:16Provably independent tests
5. 16:29The Rails component app
6. 17:15Provable structure for Rails
7. 21:35What code smell did you see?
8. 22:55Clearer responsibilities
9. 26:24Reduced surface area
10. 27:27gem build event_counter..
11. 28:25The HTTP SOA app

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