[Rails] How We Reduced API Response Rendering Time by 30%

1. daily

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   daily.dev is a professional network for developers to learn, collaborate, and grow together 👩🏽‍💻 👨‍💻

   

   By chance, while browsing a site called daily.dev, I searched for Jbuilder alternatives and found an article about a gem called props_template. This gem will be the focus today.

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3. jbuilder

   2 17 4,360 7.5 Ruby

   Jbuilder: generate JSON objects with a Builder-style DSL

   

   Jbuilder is a domain-specific language (DSL) integrated into Ruby on Rails for generating JSON responses. It allows you to intuitively build JSON responses as if you’re writing a view. However, performance issues can arise when handling large amounts of data.

4. rack-mini-profiler

   3 22 3,768 6.6 Ruby

   Profiler for your development and production Ruby rack apps.

   

   I used the rack-mini-profiler gem to measure performance in our development environment. I prepared hundreds of thousands of data entries in the development environment and gathered samples from 10 requests.

5. Jb

   4 6 1,299 5.3 Ruby

   A simple and fast JSON API template engine for Ruby on Rails

   

   Next, I investigated template engines. The first one I explored was a gem called jb, maintained by Ruby/Rails committer Matsuda-san. I replaced Jbuilder with it but didn’t see significant improvements.

6. alba

   5 11 997 8.9 Ruby

   Alba is a JSON serializer for Ruby, JRuby and TruffleRuby.

   

   Other candidates included the following gems such as alba, active_model_serializers, and jsonapi-serializer. Considering team-wide adoption and maintenance, we preferred gems with syntax similar to Jbuilder if possible.

7. ActiveModel::Serializers

   6 10 5,330 1.5 Ruby

   ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks

   

   Other candidates included the following gems such as alba, active_model_serializers, and jsonapi-serializer. Considering team-wide adoption and maintenance, we preferred gems with syntax similar to Jbuilder if possible.

8. jsonapi-serializer

   7 10 1,415 0.0 Ruby

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

   

   Other candidates included the following gems such as alba, active_model_serializers, and jsonapi-serializer. Considering team-wide adoption and maintenance, we preferred gems with syntax similar to Jbuilder if possible.

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10. props_template

    8 1 162 7.3 Ruby

    A very fast json builder for Rails

    

    Basic Information about props_template is a library that allows lightweight and fast JSON generation, with syntax similar to Jbuilder. It's developed by Thoughtbot, which is familiar with factory_bot.

11. factory_bot

    9 31 7,959 7.1 Ruby

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

    

    Basic Information about props_template is a library that allows lightweight and fast JSON generation, with syntax similar to Jbuilder. It's developed by Thoughtbot, which is familiar with factory_bot.

12. committee-rails

    10 1 124 0.8 Ruby

    rails and committee are good friends

    

    Our API specifications were managed with Open API, so we integrated it into committee-rails to conduct schema tests in our request specs. Since the Open API documentation formed the basis of our tests, we took time to review the payload schemas thoroughly.

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