Cells VS Draper

Compare Cells vs Draper and see what are their differences.

Cells

View components for Ruby and Rails. (by trailblazer)

Draper

Decorators/View-Models for Rails Applications (by drapergem)
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Cells

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cells. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-01.
  • The Admin Framework for Minimalist
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 Nov 2022
    It can be used with Ruby on Rails or other frameworks because I implemented with trailblazer/cells.
  • Is ViewComponent the Future of Rails?
    1 project | /r/rails | 22 Aug 2022
    I agree, though cells does still have a larger following.
    4 projects | /r/ruby | 22 Aug 2022
    Better official documentation for cells: https://trailblazer.to/2.1/docs/cells.html
  • From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
    11 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022
    So what about the world outside Rails defaults? There are quite a few independent projects trying to help build components in the Rails view layer, among the more famous being Draper (utilizing the decorators pattern) or Cells (full-featured components in views). In the end, we decided to take a deeper look into a relatively new one – the ViewComponent framework.
  • Cells - Introduction
    3 projects | dev.to | 12 Mar 2021
    GitHub has recently posted an article about view_component: https://github.blog/2020-12-15-encapsulating-ruby-on-rails-views/ Before it gets too popular I think I should share my experience with cells So that developers can have another chance to re-think and pick what to use for "encapsulated view components".
  • Why being a developer is frustrating — and why we do it anyway
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    This, combined with the fact that we are using cells gem for some view components, resulted in another couple of hours of hunting for the problem (it takes some time to debug what exactly and how exactly changed in Rails internals) and then fixing this problem. At this moment, I already spent over 8 hours debugging Rails internals, different gem internals, fixing application, fixing tests, screaming internally.

Draper

Posts with mentions or reviews of Draper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-03.
  • From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
    11 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2022
    So what about the world outside Rails defaults? There are quite a few independent projects trying to help build components in the Rails view layer, among the more famous being Draper (utilizing the decorators pattern) or Cells (full-featured components in views). In the end, we decided to take a deeper look into a relatively new one – the ViewComponent framework.
  • Ruby on Rails View Patterns and Anti-patterns
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Jun 2021
    If you are not a big fan of writing Rails custom helpers, you can always opt-in for a View Model pattern with the Draper gem. Or you can roll your own View Model pattern here, it shouldn't be that complicated. If you are just starting out with your web app, I suggest starting slowly by writing custom helpers and if that brings pain, turn to other solutions.
  • 2 noob questions about app structure
    1 project | /r/rubyonrails | 2 Apr 2021
    The Draper gem is the one I'm familiar with which does this well, I'm sure there are others.
  • My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects in 2021
    9 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2021
    Don't introduce decorators and view models. Use helpers instead. Don't extract domain models. Put the code in the ActiveRecord models and the controllers. Don't reach for interactors to model your domain logic. Don't try to avoid duplication too early.
  • RoR Gems: Pin To Plane For Developing RoR Application
    12 projects | /r/TechnoMation | 28 Feb 2021
    7. DRAPER

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cells and Draper you can also consider the following projects:

Trailblazer - The advanced business logic framework for Ruby.

ActiveDecorator - ORM agnostic truly Object-Oriented view helper for Rails 4, 5, 6, and 7

Amoeba - A ruby gem to allow the copying of ActiveRecord objects and their associated children, configurable with a DSL on the model

jsonapi-serializer - A fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby (fork of Netflix/fast_jsonapi)

wisper - A micro library providing Ruby objects with Publish-Subscribe capabilities

ShowFor - Wrap your objects with a helper to easily show them

Mutations - Compose your business logic into commands that sanitize and validate input.

Simple Form - Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Decent Exposure - A helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers

Kaminari - ⚡ A Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator for Ruby webapps

Apotomo - MVC Components for Rails.

AASM - AASM - State machines for Ruby classes (plain Ruby, ActiveRecord, Mongoid, NoBrainer, Dynamoid)