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Using the Registry Pattern in Rails

by Matt Brictson —

The Registry pattern is a way to look up collaborator objects without hardcoding their class names and initialization in the calling code. Here’s a way to apply this pattern in Rails.

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Starting from the example, which is the difference with Factory?

Indrit —

Good question! My take: A Registry is a way to locate objects, not necessarily create them. And, Registries are used as a central place to locate many different types of objects, whereas a Factory deals with a single type.

Matt Brictson —

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