Chapter 4. Service and API Design
Services require a little more up-front thought than a typical Rails application. Taking the time to think about design decisions before you start creating services can give your application the advantages of flexibility, scalability, and robustness in the long run. One of the keys to ensuring that you reap the benefits of services is proper design.
This chapter covers strategies and examples for designing services. It discusses segmenting functionality into separate services, upgrading and versioning services, and designing APIs that provide sensible and flexible functionality. The goal is to develop services that cover the functionality of the social feed reader described in Chapter 3, “Case Study: Social ...
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