Draper VS ActiveDecorator

Compare Draper vs ActiveDecorator and see what are their differences.

Draper

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

ActiveDecorator

ORM agnostic truly Object-Oriented view helper for Rails 4, 5, 6, and 7 (by amatsuda)
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Draper ActiveDecorator
5 -
5,202 1,088
0.1% -
0.0 6.5
3 months ago 7 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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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

ActiveDecorator

Posts with mentions or reviews of ActiveDecorator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ActiveDecorator yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails

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

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

MetaTags - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Ruby on Rails applications.

ActiveRecord Import - A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.

Sidekiq - Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby