I haven’t been good at blogging for a while. Most of my writing has been toward a new book (details forthcoming), but I did manage to write up how I see designing service objects for Rails applications over at Stitch Fix’s Eng Blog.

Anatomy of a Rails Service Object:

We’ve given up on “fat models, skinny controllers” as a design style for our Rails apps—in fact we abandoned it before we started. Instead, we factor our code into special-purpose classes, commonly called service objects.

The post goes over six rules of thumb that I’ve found useful, including class design, method parameter, and return values.