SolidService

A service pattern with a simple API.

result = ASolidService.call(any: 'thing', you: 'like')
result.success? #=> true
result.fail? #=> false

• One service per action
• Service only has one public method .call with a hash input argument
• The .call always return a State object. You can ask the state object the execution result

Check the Q&A for popular questions like:

• Is this gem has any different than interactor, simple_command and dry-monads?
• You use rescue to handle control flow? That's a bad idea.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add solidservice

Or manually add it in Gemfile

gem 'solidservice'

Here is an example for Rails app.

1. Create a services folder

mkdir app/services

2. Create the service you want

class UpdateUser < SolidService::Base
  def call
    if user.update(user_params)
      success!(user: user)
    else
      fail!(user: user)
    end
  end

  private

  def user
    @user ||= User.find(params[:id])
  end

  def user_params
    @user_params ||= params[:user_params]
  end
end

3. Use this service in controller

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def update
    result = UpdateUser.call(
      id: params[:id],
      user_params: params.require(:user).permit(:email)
    )

    if result.success?
      redirect_to root_path
    else
      @user = result.user
      render :edit
    end
  end
end

• success! - Success the service immediately, any code after it won't be execute (Recommend)
• success - Just update the state to success
• fail! - Fail the service immediately, any code after it won't be execute (Recommend)
• fail - Just update the state to fail

You can send data with state object like this:

success!(user: user)
success(user: user, item: item)
fail!(email: email, error: error)
fail(error: error)

Then we can get those data on the result:

result = ExampleService.call
result.success? #=> true
result.user
result.item

result.success? #=> false
result.error
result.email

If you don't call above 4 methods, the service will be marked as success by default. When some services which just want to execute some actions and don't want to return anything, go ahead, SolidService will take care of it.

class ACommandService < SolidService::Base
  def call
    # Do some actions that don't need to return anything
  end
end

result = ACommandService.call
result.success? #=> true

Sometimes, we want to use a service in another service, but don't want to doing if/else on the state object everywhere, then we can use call! for the inner service. Then the service will raise error on failure.

class Action2 < SolidService::Base
  def call
    fail!(error: StandardError.new('something wrong'))
  end
end

class Action1 < SolidService::Base
  def call
    Action2.call!
  end
end

result = Action1.call
result.fail? #=> true
result.error #=> #<StandardError: something wrong>

Here are some the key advantages:

• It's much simple then other service like pattern.
• You can master it in a few of seconds and start to use it in real projects.
• Easy to write concise, readable and maintainable code with only 4 DSL
• Unify input and output but without any restrictions
  • The input is a hash called params. It's Rails dev friendly, use it just like a controller
  • The output is an state object with hash data. Call any methods on it, it won't raise error on data missing.

This gem doesn't force you to do that. Those rescue handle on Success and Failure only work when you use success! and fail!. You can only use success and fail if you don't like the rescue pattern.

I use it for a very practical reason. I believe many people have met this issue in the controller:

class ExampleController < ApplicationController
  def create
     if a_condition
        render :a_page and return
     end

     # ......
  end
end

I meet the same issue in service:

class ExampleService < SolidService::Base
  def call
    if check_1_failed
      fail(user: user) and return
    end

    if check_2_failed
      fail(user: user) and return
    end

    # ...
  end
end

I hate this. It's very low readability. So I comes up with with the rescue way to end the action immediately when I call success! and fail!

class ExampleService < SolidService::Base
  def call
    fail!(user: user) if check_1_failed
    fail!(user: user) if check_2_failed

    # ...
  end
end

I think it's much better. So you see, the rescue is for success! and fail! only. You can still use success and fail. Even me, I did have a few circumstances need me to call success multiple times, then I will use it also.

bundle install
meval rake # Run test
meval -a rake # Run tests against all Ruby versions and Rails versions

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hoppergee/solidservice. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the SolidService project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.