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Making controller logic easier to test, by removing it from the controller

The gem can be found here: https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/skinny_controllers

It’s inspired by trailblazer, but sticks more to how rails is laid out.

To use the default functionality, for each of your actions, you can just do:

render json: model

or however you want to render the response. model is a memoized method that looks up an operation and policy and applies whatever custom logic you want to implement.

Checkout the readme for details.


I’m using this gem in a production sass project with Ember as my frontend and ActiveModelSerializers for helping structure JSON, so support for skinny_controllers isn’t going away ever.


Hope you like it :-)

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