Makeover

A decorator library for Rails applications, inspired by Draper, but with an emphasis on architectural simplicity. Makeover uses the given ActiveSupport and Ruby standard library objects that can help in building an object-presentation layer for your models.

Usage

After installing, run the following command to get things set up:

$ bin/rails makeover:install

This will mix in the Makeover::Presentable module into your ApplicationRecord model code, enabling models to be presented by calling model.present. This module is also mixed into your ApplicationController, because the present method can be called with an optional first argument that dictates the model being presented. In addition to mixing itself in (visibly) to your controller and model layer, this generator also creates an ApplicationPresenter and CollectionPresenter base class for presenting models and collections, respectively. All makeover will be derived from one of these base classes.

In your application code, presentation would look like the following:

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @posts = present Post.search(params[:q])
  end

  def show
    @post = Post.find(params[:id]).present
  end
end

It is recommended to choose one syntax and make that standard across your app, however both syntaxes are provided in case one or the other works out better for you. Conventionally, presenter classes are found by taking the model name and adding "Presenter" to the end, or in the case of collections, pluralizing the model name and then suffixing with "Presenter". You can customize this by passing the with: option into the #present method:

@post.present with: SearchResultPresenter

You can also use this options hash to apply context into the presenter. A call to #present like this:

@post.present with: SearchResultPresenter, search: @search

Will result in the following instantiation:

SearchResultPresenter.new(@post, search: @search)

The Presenter Class

Makeover are subclasses of Makeover::Presenter, which itself subclasses (and implements Delegator. The Delegator API was designed specifically for implementing decorator objects such as this, and it's utilized here to delegate all method calls not implemented on the presenter itself to its underlying model. In addition, the Presenter class contains an instance of a Makeover::Helpers object, which mixes in ActionView::Helpers as well as any modules you define in Rails.application.config.makeover.helpers.

This library is also capable of presenting entire collections of objects. You can opt to present the collection object itself (like in cases of pagination), or the objects within it. Collection makeover derive from Makeover::CollectionPresenter, and in your application the base collection presenter is called CollectionPresenter. These types of objects can be generated using the --collection flag on the presenter generator (as described below), but they're also generated automatically when you pass a plural name into the presenter generator. Collection makeover are Enumerable objects, and when iterating over their model, all records inside the collection are decorated prior to returning to the caller.

Generating Makeover

To generate a presenter, run the following command:

$ bin/rails generate presenter post

This will generate app/makeover/post_presenter.rb as a subclass fo ApplicationPresenter. It will also generate a test file in test/makeover/post_presenter_test.rb or spec/makeover/post_presenter_spec.rb.

A typical presenter might look like this:

class PostPresenter < ApplicationPresenter
  def title
    model.name.titleize
  end

  def cover_image
    h.image_tag model.cover_image_url
  end
end

You can also generate collection makeover using this generator. This can be done in one of two ways, either by passing a plural name into the generator:

$ bin/rails generate presenter posts

Or, by passing the --collection option in the generator arguments:

$ bin/rails generate presenter query --collection

This will generate a presenter class that is subclassed from CollectionPresenter, rather than ApplicationPresenter.

Configuring Makeover

To mix helper modules into your makeover, add the following to your config/application.rb:

config.makeover.helpers << Refile::AttachmentHelper # or whatever module you want

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'makeover'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install makeover

Contributing

All contributions to this library must follow the Code of Conduct. Please follow the instructions laid out in the issue and pull request template for proper description formatting. We use GitHub Issues as a bug tracker, and only accept code contributions in the form of GitHub Pull Requests.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.