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iCyborg
iCyborg

Reputation: 4728

How to use and where to put code not part of MVC

I wrote ruby code which pulls content from Google API. It works as a standalone example.rb file. I need to add this to my RoR app. What is the standard way to do it? How should I call this code from the controller? Should I add this code in some model file, keep the code in /lib folder, or put the code in /vendor/plugins folder?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

varatis
varatis

Reputation: 14750

Either extract it out into a gem, or you could put it in lib if you wanted.

If you take the second approach, here's an example. Say you have it in a module (Google)

#lib/google.rb
module Google
  class Uploader
    def initialize
      ...
    end
    def foo
      ...
    end
  end
   ...
end

in your controller

require 'google'
class MyController < ApplicationController
  def new
    uploader = Google::Uploader.new # do whatever here
    uploader.foo
  end
end

There are many ways to modify / use this module approach, the given code is only one possibility.

Upvotes: 5

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