Why Separation from Rails Is Useful
Explore the advantages of isolating code from Rails to manage complexity and enable faster testing. Understand how reducing dependencies between components simplifies code changes and enhances maintainability, making your Rails application more resilient to change and upgrades.
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Isolation advantages
The primary advantage of writing our tests to avoid Rails is that doing so encourages us to structure our code to better manage increasing complexity and change over time. Super-fast tests are just a side benefit.
Here are some of the advantages, which are related to the idea that there is a minimum of coupling between any two parts of the code:
- It’s easier to change one element of the code if the impact of that change is limited in how it affects other parts of the code. Limiting the