Packwerk

Packwerk enables lightweight modular Rails projects. It is a flexible, low overhead alterntive to Rails Engines. Crucially, for established code it allows a gradual migration and to only enforce module boundaries when the code is sufficiently refactored with low coupling.

Packwerk enables lightweight modular Rails projects. It is a flexible, low overhead alternative to Rails Engines. Crucially, for established code it allows a gradual migration and to only enforce module boundaries when the code is sufficiently refactored with low coupling.

Organizing Code Gems and Engines have long been used to organize Ruby and Rails code into workable small units. Shopify has introduced a new system called ‘packages’ - they use the packwerk gem to help us.