Grape VS ActiveModel::Serializers

Compare Grape vs ActiveModel::Serializers and see what are their differences.

Grape

An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby. (by ruby-grape)

ActiveModel::Serializers

ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks (by rails-api)
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Grape ActiveModel::Serializers
12 9
9,829 5,311
0.2% 0.1%
8.2 0.0
1 day ago about 1 month ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Grape

Posts with mentions or reviews of Grape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.
  • 16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Grape is a REST-like microframework written in Ruby programming language. Grape is also considered among the best ruby frameworks and can be used to run on top of Rack or can be used to complement the existing web application frameworks such as Sinatra or Rails. The latter can be done through the DSL-based REST-API for communication. The Grape ruby web framework facilitates efficient and meaningful APIs working in the web application domain.
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Grape’s support extends to standard conventions, multiple format support, content negotiation, versioning, etc. The complete guide to Grape to develop REST-APIs, test the API and analyze the performance metrics is available on its official GitHub page.
  • Web Frameworks actively maintained in 2023?
    7 projects | /r/ruby | 18 Sep 2023
    Grape (ruby-grape.org)
  • An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2023
    I'm very ambivalent about Grape, but this very much reminds me of something I do really like about it: the param validation. https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape#parameters
  • Rails api auth with Grape and Devise JWT
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 May 2022
    I am currently working on developing and api using grape and devise jwt for user user authentication.
  • 16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development
    21 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2021
    Grape is a REST-like microframework written in Ruby programming language. Grape is also considered among the best ruby frameworks and can be used to run on top of Rack or can be used to complement the existing web application frameworks such as Sinatra or Rails. The latter can be done through the DSL-based REST-API for communication. The Grape ruby web framework facilitates efficient and meaningful APIs working in the web application domain.
    21 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2021
    Grape’s support extends to standard conventions, multiple format support, content negotiation, versioning, etc. The complete guide to Grape to develop REST-APIs, test the API and analyze the performance metrics is available on its official GitHub page.
  • What resources do you recommend to learn about Rails APIs?
    6 projects | /r/rails | 29 Apr 2021
    I love the Grape gem for building APIs - might be worth considering if you are building something new: https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape
  • 26 most popular Ruby/Rails repositories on GitHub in July-August 2020
    26 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2020
    Grape is a REST-like API framework for Ruby. It’s designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. 9,200 stars by now

ActiveModel::Serializers

Posts with mentions or reviews of ActiveModel::Serializers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Grape and ActiveModel::Serializers you can also consider the following projects:

jbuilder - Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

Blueprinter - Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby

Rails::API - Rails for API only applications

graphql - Ruby implementation of GraphQL

Fast JSON API - No Longer Maintained - A lightning fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby Objects.

rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support

JSONAPI::Resources - A resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON:API compliant servers.

Roar - Parse and render REST API documents using representers.