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The organization includes ActiveModel::Serializers, which is really important for giving you normalized JavaScript output. Rabl is slow and manual, which is the opposite of the Rails philosophy. Convention over Configuration wins every time.

ActiveModel::Serializers is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Hi Tom, we've been using a combination of responders and Draper decorators for this. It has been in production for almost a year and has worked out pretty well so far. Simon, one of our developers, wrote a couple of articles outlining our API setup:

Part 1: http://techblog.tribesports.com/blog/2011/09/24/versioning-t... Part 2: http://techblog.tribesports.com/blog/2011/09/24/separating-a...

RABL is very good at this.