By Daniel Rice on May 13, 2025 - RUBY ON RAILS , REFACTORING , SERVICE OBJECTS
It’s all too easy for ActiveRecord models to balloon into monolithic “God objects.” You start by adding a validation here, a callback there, maybe a little business logic in a class method—and before you know it, your User
or Order
model is hundreds of lines long, has dozens of dependencies, and is terrifying to test or extend.