Business Logic Makes Our App Special and Complex
Explore strategies to handle the unique complexity of business logic in Rails applications. Understand why keeping business logic separate from Active Record models improves app stability and sustainability, and learn how to organize this logic into dedicated classes to reduce bugs and manage dependencies effectively.
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What is business logic?
Business logic is the term we’ll use to refer to the core logic of our app that is specific to whatever our app needs to do. If our app needs to send an email every time someone buys a product, but only if that product ships to Vermont, unless it ships from Kansas, in which case we send a text message, this is business logic.
The biggest question Rails developers often ask is, where does the code for this sort of logic go? Rails doesn’t have an explicit answer. There is no ActiveBusinessLogic::Base ...