We use Decorators for cleaning up view logic and models of a rails application. So if we use decorators, models and views would be less complex. When we use decorator for a project we might have a 1:1 mapping between models and decorators which means all the presentation logic of a Blog would be in BlogDecorator.
Draper gem is used for this approach.
Draper adds an object-oriented layer of presentation logic to Rails application.
Add Draper to your Gemfile and run bundle install
gem 'draper', '~> 1.3'
Decorators resides in app/decorators directory and name of a decorator is mapped with the model they are decorating as shown in example below.
# app/decorators/blog_decorator.rb
class BlogDecorator < Draper::Decorator
def published_at
object.published_at.strftime("%A, %B %e")
end
end
So we have created a decorator "BlogDecorator". Now we are going to use this.
@blog = BlogDecorator.new(Blog.first)
If you want to create a decorator for a controller by default, Run the generate command below.
rails generate resource Blog
And it will create the BlogDecorator for you along with the appropriate tests.
Draper supports RSpec, MiniTest::Rails, and Test::Unit.
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