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Presenters As A Solution To as_json Woes In Rails APIs

by cookrn —

A quick brain dump on how the presenter pattern might be an acceptable solution to the pitfalls of using as_json in versioned Rails APIs.

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I like your approach here, since these versioned APIs are representations of a model, they do not belong in the controller or the model. IMO, these are simple representations that belong in a presenter (as shown here) or in the view. I took a different approach and built a gem to make this easier: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl . With that gem you can simply declare your versioned apis in templates where they belong and it also supports inheritance and partials to keep them DRY.

nesquena —

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