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Rails API serializers #300

Open ruebenramirez opened 8 years ago

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

jbuilder has been the standard for model serialization
rails 5 will standardize on active model serializers (AMS)?
[ ] will jbuilder just go away when rails 5 drops? What's the gameplan?

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

this guy makes the claim that jbuilder is not as performant as AMS - http://kirillplatonov.com/2014/11/04/active_model_serializer_vs_jbuilder/

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/2lcldk/activemodelserializers_vs_jbuilder/ the general response to AMS is that it's not fully baked yet

problems with caching functionality
not as flexible for JSON response shape
AMS is not as mature for meeting RoR API community needs?

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

jbuilder -> AMS upgrade tutorial -- http://techblog.thescore.com/2015/11/27/jbuilder-to-ams-a-tested-journey/

having gone through this tutorial, I better understand a point mentioned in a reddit comment (- [ ] TODO: link to reddit comment) that AMS is great for serializing JSON to reflect the database configuration...and that jbuilder is a better fit in cases where you need to further customize the API

Knowing this, I feel more confident with the flexibility that jbuilder brings to the show given that requirements tend to change on projects mid-stream...

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

rails hasn't determined what the default serializer will be in rails 5.

they're holding off until 5.1 for AMS (or whatever other options they're considering) https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f8edd2043e864aff0bde9289da550709532268a6

ruebenramirez commented 8 years ago

get jbuilder to render properly in the rails 4 rails-api gem: http://stackoverflow.com/a/26848821