[rspec-users] Dreading Controller Specs

[Pat Maddox]

Jonathan Linowes <jonathan at parkerhill.com> writes:

> On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Pat Maddox wrote:
>
>> I think any app with a rich domain model benefits from a service layer
>> that uses that model.  When building Rails apps, stuff is relatively
>> simple and the controllers *are* the service layer.  That's how I
>> think
>> of it, anyway.  Most of the time that's sufficient, but sometimes it
>> gets complex enough that you want to split out some of the logic.
>
> Reflecting on this thread, I'm realizing I put a lot of these kind of
> things into application.rb. Maybe I should think about how to make
> them into objects in a service layer, but presently they're doing
> fine where they are: split out from the controller, and independently
> testable. hmm...

Okay, but I just want to restate that you usually don't need that extra
layer.  Like I said, I've done that maybe four or five times over the
past three years.  Basically, if it seems to fit okay in the controller,
there's no need to create a service layer.  It's really only when the
controller stuff gets awkward to test.

Pat