My blog: http://zonov.me/ Talk from Ruby User Group meetup, February 2018. For the full transcript follow: http://zonov.me/ruby-on-grapes-why-did-we-choose-grape-and-why-i-would-choose-it-again/

1. Ruby on Grapes
Or why I choose Grape 🍷

2. My web experience
● Rails api
● Sinatra
● Hanami

3. 01 February 2017GoogleSlide Master Flash
Hallo!
Привет!

4. About the project
● 3 developers
● Fast pace
● Flexibility
● SPA

5. Goal of my talk

6. Goal of my talk
Sell you some grapes ;)

7. So what are the options?

8. So what are the options?

9. So what are the other options?

10. So what are the other options?
● Grape
● Hanami
● Sinatra
● Roda
● Rails API

11. Criteria
● Comprehensive (includes most needed things)
● Versioning support
● Maturity
● Performance
● Personal preference

12. Comprehensiveness
Grape Rails API Sinatra Hanami Roda
Full out of
the box
More than
packed
Barebones Full out of
the box
Full out of
the box
+ ++ - + +

13. Versioning support
Grape Rails API Sinatra Hanami Roda
Out of the
box
Namespaces Possible Namespaces
+ apps
Easy to
implement
with trees
+ + + + +

14. Versioning support

15. Maturity
Grape Rails API Sinatra Hanami Roda
2010
4 merged
PRs
2012
85 merged
PRs
2008
3 merged
PRs
2014
1 merged
PR
2014
1 merged
PR
+ + + ? ?

16. Performance
Who cares?

17. Performance
● Grape -> 0.81s
● Sinatra -> 0.27s
● Rails API -> 1.63s

18. Personal preference
Grape Rails API Sinatra Hanami Roda
Looks nice Too railsy Too
barebones
Too
immature
Don’t like
their trees
+ + - + +

19. DSL

20. Some pigs among sheeps
● It’s a DSL and you’ll have limitations
● Built-in validations are very plain and you probably
would need your own
● Built-in presenters are DSLish

21. Our app folder
structure

22. Some code
samples?

23. Some code samples?

24. Conclusion
Look around and try out Grape, it’s fruity

25. Questions?
Kirill Zonov, http://zonov.me