Your Rails Application is Missing a Domain Controller:
When an application has multiple Domain Controllers I place them in a dedicated directory under app called services to keep them separate from the Model entities in app/models. This helps communicate that Rails Action Controllers should delegate to the Domain Controllers, not directly to Model Entities. The Domain Controllers and Model Entities together, represent the domain layer of the system. I have also discussed extracting the entire domain layer from the Rails framework, but that’s another discussion. Let’s keep this blog post civil for now!
[I’ve also refactored in this direction a bit lately. I’m beginning to wonder of MVC needs to be replaced in these cases with “MDCV” to begin with…]