Using Null Object Pattern in Rails to improve code quality

If you have not read my previous post I wrote about Service classes, I would suggest to read that first as it is in continuation to the previous post. This is the link to previous post.

In this post we are going to look at another pattern that helps us in refactoring code, especially helps us in removing conditions. It is called Null Object Pattern.

This code is used to download the data dump based on some rules as always. But here is my 2 cents, do not even try to understand the code.

We clearly need to refactor because this code is difficult to understand even for the person who has written the code, forget the team who is working on the same project. And since this code is difficult to understand, it is difficult to debug and it is difficult to change as changes will come…