Hexagonal Rails: Escape the Framework Trap

📰 Dev.to · Alex Aslam

Learn to separate business logic from framework code in Rails to increase flexibility and maintainability

intermediate Published 12 Jun 2025
Action Steps
  1. Identify business logic in your Rails app and separate it from framework code
  2. Use the hexagonal architecture pattern to decouple dependencies
  3. Create a core domain model that represents your business logic
  4. Extract framework-specific code into separate modules or libraries
  5. Test and refactor your code to ensure a clean separation of concerns
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and software engineers working with Ruby on Rails can benefit from this approach to improve code organization and reusability

Key Insight

💡 Separating business logic from framework code makes your application more flexible, maintainable, and scalable

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Learn to separate business logic from framework code in Rails to increase flexibility and maintainability

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