C4tK 2018 Project Template
This is a basic rails app setup for C4tK 2018.
If you want to roll your own authentication, check out the bare-app branch.
External Tool Choices:
- CSS Framework: Zurb Foundation 6 Sites
- HTML Templating: Slim
- Null Object Builder: naught by Avdi Grimm
Code Design Decisions:
I have chosen to go with the repository pattern for persistence abstraction. This means no direct calls to ActiveRecord anywhere in controller code.
I am also creating functional process objects for non-trivial data manipulations.
These objects have dependencies injected into the initializer, and the only other public method is #call which takes all relevant data.
Process objects for single models will probably be hidden behind the relevant repository. I may create repository facades for non-persisted models or meta view-models as needed just for a more consistent level of abstraction.
Note: This is mostly an experiment for me as I have always used ActiveRecord, but found it hard to write properly abstracted unit tests for models and processes. I did try to do all of this with ROM.rb, but I couldn't get a basic setup working in a few hours, so I pivoted to doing it all by hand.
I have also cheerfully embraced human friendly URLs wherever it makes sense.
If at all possible, I will never have a bare :id in the URL.
This does not mean I am opposed to resourceful routes where it makes sense, just to opaque garbage in the URL.