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Run Services in the Background

Some time ago Marcin wrote about basic design patterns in Ruby on Rails. I’d like to go back to Service pattern in this post. I really like it, it’s a good idea to place application’s business logic there. At Naturaily we use it quite often.

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Some time ago Marcin wrote about basic design patterns in Ruby on Rails. I’d like to go back to Service pattern in this post. I really like it, it's a good idea to place application’s business logic there. At Naturaily we use it quite often.

It happens that we need to run our service in the background. What's the easiest way to achieve this? Wrap our Service in a Job of course! Right... But we don't want to end up with dozens of very similar jobs. So... Here’s the solution. Let’s create universal Job for all the services.

Create the Job

Our job will be called ServiceInvocationJob. It's a good name for our universal job. To create a new Job we need to run one simple task:

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And now we should edit newly created file. Right now it looks like this:

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What do we need to run some service? Service's arguments, of course, and Service class itself! We can't pass class as argument, so we'll pass class' name. At the end our Job will be as simple as that:

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Very nice? Don't you think?

Update BaseService class

We already run our services in the background jobs! Everywhere, where we want to run our service in background, we need to change classic invocation:

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to this

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But it doesn't look well. I think this one would be better:

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Right?

So now we need to update our BaseService a bit! Nothing big. Just add a new static method called async_call. There's the updated file:

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Summary

It is very easy, nothing fancy. However, there is a hidden message: you have to be lazy and remember that future-you is also lazy! You can create code that will solve your current problem (e. g. wrapper-job for your service), it's easy and fast, you don't need to think at all. But you should think a bit more and create code that will solve your problem and prevent the emergence of similar problems in the future(e. g. our ServiceInvocationJob). Future-you will be thankful.

Thank you! Bye!

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