Interactor in Rails

What is interactor?

Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex user interactions

An interactor is a simple, single-purpose object.

Interactors are used to encapsulate your application's business logic. Each interactor represents one thing that your application does.

Context

An interactor is given a context. The context contains everything the interactor needs to do its work.

When an interactor does its single purpose, it affects its given context.

Adding context

context.user = user

Example of interactor

class AuthenticateUser
  include Interactor

  def call
    if user = User.authenticate(context.email, context.password)
      context.user = user
      context.token = user.secret_token
    else
      context.fail!(message: "authenticate_user.failure")
    end
  end
end