functional-ruby-notes.md

Functional Ruby - Notes

• immutable (don't modify inputs)
• prefer stateless objects

Prevent access to initial state

class UserQuery
  def initialize(query)
    @query = query
  end
  
  def with(query)
    self.class.new(query)
  end

  def call
    query.execute
  end
end

Consider: use initializer to ONLY inject dependencies pass ALL inputs to methods

• less coupling
• instantiate objects once, use them numerous times
• data (from db or external API) becomes first class
  • make sure this is well defined so that you can compose

Object composition:

input = { name: "Person" }

persist_person.call(
  validate.call(
    coerce.call(input)
  )
)

Lazy function calling

Partially implement function based on arguments passed in