Where to put scripts and classes for external processes?

Question
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I have an object (EventRunner) whose sole purpose is to listen on a Redis pub/sub channel and enqueue a Resque job when a certain message is received on the channel. The EventRunner is instantiated and executed as a separate process in parallel with the Hanami process.

Questions:

  • Would EventRunner be considered a service object or something else?
  • Where would be the best place to put the event_runner.rb class file and the executable script which instantiates it?
  • I currently have the class file in PROJECT_ROOT/lib/backend/services/ (parallel with entities, etc.). The script is in PROJECT_ROOT/script/. Are these appropriate locations, or should they be placed elsewhere?
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Hi Earle and welcome!

Yes, both the locations for the classes and the scripts look good to me.
Please remember that with Hanami you can organize the lib/ directory according to your needs. There is no magic involved there. Only the code generators will keep adding new entities and repositories under lib/bookshelf/entities and lib/bookshelf/repositories.

:cherry_blossom:

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@jodosha Great. Thanks for the feedback.

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