diff --git a/design_experiment/README b/design_experiment/README
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+This is a thought experiment for how Raptor apps might be designed. The module
+hierarchy is:
+
+Routes
+Injectables
+  .current_user
+  .post_params
+Interactors
+  CreatePost
+    PostSaved
+    ValidationFailure
+Models
+  User
+  AnonymousUser
+  Post
+Records
+  User
+  Post
+
+Responsibility breakdown:
+  - Routes are the same Raptor routes as ever. Then can route out to different
+    actions/redirects based on the interactor's response.
+  - Injectables provide objects for Raptor's implicit DI. For example, the
+    `post_params` injectable does what it sounds like, so that
+    Interactors::CreatePost can take a `post_params` argument without worrying
+    about where it came from. These are class methods directly on the
+    Injectables module.
+  - Interactors contain the application's business logic. They return (or
+    raise) response models that are defined directly in the interactor's
+    class (or maybe from a shared location if appropriate).
+  - Models wrap database records to provide simple mutations and data
+    wrappers. For example, Post#publish updates the published flag and saves.
+    These don't necessarily map to records one-to-one. For example, the
+    AnonymousUser model exists to avoid nil current_user, and doesn't map to
+    anything in the database.
+  - Records are straight-up database records. No methods; just field
+    definitions.
+
+This hierarchy doesn't correspond to the file layout. The files are grouped by
+topic. For example, posts.rb contains both Interactors::CreatePost and the
+post_params injectable. The modules in the system will be reopened many times
+as code is loaded. This gives us lasagna files instead of ravioli files.
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/models.rb b/design_experiment/models.rb
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+module Models
+  class User
+    extend Raptor::Model
+    delegate [:email, :posts] => :@record
+
+    def anonymous?; false; end
+  end
+
+  class AnonymousUser
+    def anonymous?; true; end
+  end
+
+  class Post
+    extend Raptor::Model
+    delegate [:title, :body] => :@record
+
+    def publish
+      @record.update_attributes(:published => true)
+      @record.save!
+    end
+
+    def save_as_draft
+      @record.update_attributes(:published => false)
+      @record.save!
+    end
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/posts.rb b/design_experiment/posts.rb
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+require "raptor/shorty"
+
+module Injectables
+  def self.post_params(params)
+    params.fetch(:post)
+  end
+end
+
+module Interactors
+  class CreatePost
+    class PostSaved < Struct.new(:current_user, :post); end
+    class ValidationFailure < RuntimeError
+      takes :current_user, :post
+    end
+
+    def self.create(current_user, post_params)
+      post = Models::Post.new(post_params)
+      raise ValidationFailure.new(current_user, post) unless post.valid?
+
+      if current_user.admin?
+        post.publish
+      else
+        post.save_as_draft
+      end
+
+      PostSaved.new(current_user, post)
+    end
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/posts_spec.rb b/design_experiment/posts_spec.rb
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+require_relative "posts"
+
+module Models; class Post; end; end
+
+describe Interactors::CreatePost do
+  Post = Models::Post
+  CreatePost = Interactors::CreatePost
+  PostSaved = Interactors::CreatePost::PostSaved
+  ValidationFailure = Interactors::CreatePost::ValidationFailure
+
+  let(:post_params) { stub(:post_params) }
+
+  context "when the post is valid" do
+    let(:post) { stub(:post, :valid? => true) }
+    before { Post.stub(:new).with(post_params) { post } }
+
+    it "publishes the post if the user is an admin" do
+      user = stub(:user, :admin? => true)
+      post.should_receive(:publish)
+      CreatePost.create(user, post_params)
+    end
+
+    it "saves the post as a draft if the user isn't an admin" do
+      user = stub(:user, :admin? => false)
+      post.should_receive(:save_as_draft)
+      CreatePost.create(user, post_params)
+    end
+
+    it "returns a post saved response" do
+      user = stub(:user, :admin? => false)
+      post.stub(:save_as_draft)
+      response = CreatePost.create(user, post_params)
+      response.should be_a PostSaved
+    end
+  end
+
+  it "raises a validation failure when the post is invalid" do
+    user = stub(:user)
+    post = stub(:post, :valid? => false)
+    Post.stub(:new).with(post_params) { post }
+    expect do
+      CreatePost.create(user, post_params)
+    end.to raise_error(ValidationFailure)
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/records.rb b/design_experiment/records.rb
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+module Records
+  class User < SomeORM::Record
+    value :email
+    list :posts => "Post"
+  end
+
+  class Post < SomeORM::Record
+    value :title
+    value :body
+    reference :author => "User"
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/routes.rb b/design_experiment/routes.rb
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+Routes = Raptor.routes do
+  path "posts" do
+    # We could also scope all route targets inside Interactors, allowing this
+    # to say :to => "CreatePost.create".
+    create :to => "Interactors::CreatePost.create",
+      :ValidationFailure => render(:new)
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/design_experiment/users.rb b/design_experiment/users.rb
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+module Injectables
+  def current_user(session)
+    begin
+      id = session.fetch(:user_id)
+    rescue KeyError
+      AnonymousUser.new
+    else
+      Models::User.find(id)
+    end
+  end
+end
+