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richardjordan on Nov 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing the Rails API Project

This has come at a time I'm looking at Grape mounted in a Rails app for an API layer. Is there a simple way to explain to those of us with less API building experience what the pros/cons are of using rails-api over something like the Grape gem?

steveklabnik2 on Nov 23, 2012 [–]

It's the exact same as Sinatra vs. Rails: build it all yourself vs. using a framework that has it built for you.

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